Habitation Velier Hampden H 2016

Habitation Velier Hampden H 2016 is a Pure Single Rum, pot-still distillate from a single distillery bottled with no additives, no added sugar and no colouring. Hampden is the reference point for high-ester Jamaican funk, built on wild fermentation, double-retort pot stills and traditional dunder and muck pits, and the H mark, read Diamond H, sits high on its ester scale. This is intense by design.

Distilled in 2016 and aged five years in the Jamaican heat in ex-bourbon casks, it delivers explosive pineapple, overripe tropical fruit and banana wrapped in glue and solvent funk, with young wood firming up the finish. The esters are concentrated and unmistakable, and the youth shows as bright, raw energy rather than a flaw. At a full 62% it wants air and a splash of water to open. It is built for seasoned drinkers who already love Hampden and want classic high-ester power at full strength.