Hampden 15 Year Old Pure Single Jamaican Rum (70cl, 50%)

A 15-year-old Jamaican rum from Hampden Estate, aged entirely in ex-bourbon casks under Jamaica's tropical climate. It is distilled from molasses with sugar cane vinegar, dunder and muck in double-retort pot stills, with an ester content of 200 to 400 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol. The rum is bottled at 50% without colouring or chill filtration. The nose is rich and soft, with fine pepper and marmalade, developing figs, almond paste, roasted walnuts, currants, burnt sugar cane and incense, then honeyed accents, geranium and intense iris. The palate combines liveliness with a creamy, finely oily texture, with macerated mango and guava, diesel, candied ginger, powdery cocoa, milky almonds and cinnamon powder. The finish is concentrated, silky and tannic, with sugar cane, iris, powdery cocoa and ginger, mango, reseda, clove blossoms and liquorice.