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A high-ester Hampden DOK from 2009, dry and uncompromising, all pineapple, glue and overripe tropical fruit over light wood and smoke, a single cask bottled by Valinch & Mallet at a fully integrated 57.5%.
Description
Hampden of Trelawny is the reference point for Jamaican funk, a 100% pot still distillery whose marques climb from light OWH up to DOK, the highest ester mark sitting at the legal ceiling. This single cask from the 2009 vintage, released in Valinch & Mallet's Collection Antipodes, carries that DOK code, which means it is built for intensity rather than ease, a rum that was historically a flavouring essence before drinkers learned to sip it neat.
Distilled on the double-retort pot still from molasses and matured in ex-bourbon casks, it is bottled unsweetened at 57.5% with the alcohol notably well folded in. The nose leads with pineapple, nail polish and funky overripe fruit, the palate stays in that lane with glue and tropical fruit, and the finish turns astringent and roasted. This is dry, solvent-driven Jamaica with the sweetness stripped out and the funk turned up, squarely for those who already chase Hampden at its loudest.
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