The Whisky Jury Hampden The Road Rummers HD Jamaican Rum DOK 2009

02-09.04.2022 This was crazy week, where some friends and I rented a nice summerhouse on Rømø. The plan was to go nuts for a whole week with different rums without going overboard. The final agreement came to 6 rums a day and then enjoy nice walks or ferry rides during the day. Day 2 Notes Light in colour. Nose Intense, ester, light wood, fruity, light glue, overripe, pineapple. Palate Intense, warm, ester, medium dry, fruity, light orange, banana, balanced, faint smoke. Finish Very long and warm, ester, faint rubber, faint wood, faint chocolate. Extra note. Needs to rest for a good while to release all its wonderful flavours. ABV pretty well integrated.

Vert good drop, ABV level is perfect en very well integrated. Also delicious as an addition in a daiquiri. 17/05/23: Compared to RX11282 At first it’s rougher around the edges and appears less balanced. More peppery from the alcohol. But after some time that fades away and becomes more part of the whole thing. Difficult to pick a favorite, but maybe this one with 0.1 point? 😅 Ah who cares I’ve enjoyed them both. This one needed more time in the glass, that’s all.

On the nose comes the full ester blast, as you would expect from a DOK. On the palate then quite balanced and a bit tamer. Quite astringent and dry on the palate.

Beautiful DOK with good alcohol integration. Ester not too dominant, but amazingly easy to drink. In the 2nd tasting again a slight upgrade, as he really thrilled me.

Intensely aromatic. On the palate with pleasant sweetness, which must of course be understood in relation to the dominant fruit esters in a DOK. But again, not much else happens, which is to be suggested as a point of criticism. One of the better DOKs, but not the spearhead.

A Hampden DOK? Can't really believe it, it seems pretty tame, the classic Hampden markers are there...but too fleeting! This Hampden does not convince me

Au nez, l'explosion d'esters confirme que nous sommes en présence d'un DOK. On retrouve les marqueurs habituels des rhums Hampden. Impression confirmée en bouche, avec un alcool correctement intégré. Plutôt cool.

Extremely light for a DOK, an easy sipper that seems tamed down.

Exactly what I imagine a sun-bathed Jamaican barbecue would smell like - roasted, spicy and overly fruity, without going over the top into rotten territory. We start with banane flambée, pineapple chunks and mixed berries. Cooking and slowly thickening into a deep fruity sweetness. Subsequently the fructose gets slashed down by fresh lime juice and sharp nail polish remover. And at last the heart appears with violently roasted influences such as bacon, campfire, BBQ-spices and a hint of pimento, before dying in jasmine tea. More round and approachable in the mouth. Extremely fruity start with plantains, pineapple chunks, cantaloupe and applejuice. But honestly, there’s probably 15 more fruits in here. The roasted notes revealed during nosing are still present, but much less oppressive. It’s elegant, smoked with firewood, and serves crispy bacon and marshmallow-on-a-stick. The profile is also less medicinal than expected, rather bitter with a slight hard glue and aniseed touch. The taste persists for quite a bit, and is very comparable to the aftertaste of a large glass of pineapple juice. Very fruity chased by a woody undertone.

Nase: Direkt kommt uns der dicke Kleber direkt in die Nase! Die für Hampden typischen exotischen Früchte bestätigen uns dann, wo wir uns befinden ... falls wir Zweifel haben sollten. Ananas, sehr reife Bananen ... vervollständigen diese intensive, aber nicht aggressive Nase. Mund: Wir befinden uns auf einem Hampden, eindeutig mit seinen exotischen Früchten, seinem starken Klebstoff und seinen Oliven. Die 56,1% sind gut integriert! Der lange Abgang ist auf rauchigem Holz. Dies war mein erster reiner alter DOK und ich wurde nicht enttäuscht!

Alkohol gut eingebunden. In der Nase noch volle Esterpower. Am Gaumen sehr zarm für nen Dok. Die Esterfruchtnoten sind zwar da, aber längst nicht so prägnant wie man es von dem Mark erwartet. Abgang leichte Rauchtnote und etwas säuerlich.