Type: Pure Single Rum<br />Raw material: Molasses<br />Fermentation: Indigenous yeasts<br />Production method: Pot Still distillation<br />Ageing: Tropical<br /><br />Why it's different<br /><br />From what could be considered the best distillery in the world, Hampden Estate 8 Years Old is made from the single mark 'OWH' bottled without any additives, no<br />colouring agents, but above all no added sugar, and aged 8 years in the distillery's wherehouse. All Hampden Estate rums are bottled with no added artifacts.<br /><br />How I drink it<br />Enjoy neat, on the rocks, in simple cocktails such as Hampden & Pineapple or diluted with ginger beer. Excellent to wash down a baba, drizzled over a soft, well-vanillaised<br />sponge cake or dunked into dry biscuits such as canestrelli.<br /><br />Focus<br />Hampden Estate could be considered the best distillery in the world, located in the northwest of Jamaica, in Trelawny County. This claim is based on objective<br />considerations for the production process of this rum, 5 fundamental pillars:<br />1) the water used in all stages of production comes from a source a few kilometres from the distillery in the pristine area of Cockpit Country.<br />2) fermentation is spontaneous, using natural yeasts and ancestral techniques, to produce High Ester rums that are characterised by their aromatic richness.<br />3) distillation is 100% in Pot Still. Hampden Estate remains one of the very few distilleries in the world to use only discontinuous double retort copper pot stills - there are<br />currently four, one of which, legendary, was installed in 1960, produced by John Dore, with a capacity of 7600 litres and a marvellous swan neck reminiscent of a trunk,<br />which has earned it the name 'The Elephant' - the distillation cycle lasts about 7 hours with an alcoholic degree at the exit of the still of 82°.<br />4) Ageing takes place in a tropical climate in the Hampden Estate warehouse, where climatic conditions lead to very high angel share - in fact 7 years of ageing corresponds<br />to around 25 years in a continental climate.<br />5) No added sugar or caramel.<br /><br />The climatic factor is one of the fundamental elements of the Trelawny terroir. OWH is one of the many marks produced by the Hampden Estate. It is made up of the initials<br />of Outram Warmold Hussey, father of Lawrence Francis Close Hussey who took over the Hampden Estate with his family in 2009. Of the eight different expressions<br />produced for tasting rums, it is the one with the lowest level of esters. It is a rum that has a range of esters that fluctuates around 80/120 gr/hlap and belongs to the category<br />of Jamaican rums defined as 'Common Clean', those that, according to the Jamaican Spirits Pool, have a level of esters that can vary on average between 80 and 150<br />gr/hlap. Nevertheless, the level of aromatic richness of a quality Common Clean rum is far higher than that of any other modern rum distilled with multi-column distillation<br />equipment. That's the magic of Hampden Estate rum, a distillate that thanks to ancestral techniques has a recognisable and unique taste. OWH is one of the most recent<br />marks, born from the idea of creating a lighter rum than the historic marks that have been aged since that year.<br />
Price
€64.40
