Hampden Quarterdeck 12 Year Old Single Cask #27 Rum (70cl, 50.8%)

This Quarterdeck bottling is a twelve-year-old single cask rum from Hampden Estate in Jamaica. The molasses rum was distilled on a pot still on 30 June 2009 and bottled by Duncan Taylor on 17 February 2022. Cask 27 yielded 335 numbered bottles at 50.8% vol. It matured in oak casks and is bottled without added colouring, chill filtration or other additives. Hampden Estate works with natural yeasts and fermentation times of eight to fifteen days, using four pot stills. On the nose, banana, vanilla and oak meet sweet impressions, with a glue-like note, mango, spice and leather on a woody background. The palate shows pineapple, estery fruit, oak and brioche, with a drying mouthfeel, plus chocolate, nuts and citrus. The finish leaves raisins, brioche and spicy notes.