Hampden Astor Cask HGML 5yr Jamaica Single Rum - 2017

The HGML recipe is named after George MacFarquhar Lawson, the former owner of Hampden Estate. It also refers to one of the absolute highest registers of esters ever recorded in rum averaging an almost unthinkable 1000-1100 g/hL AA. Perhaps the most highly prized mark in all of this great estates range and that is saying a lot, it is also naturally extremely rare to see if bottled on its own as a vintage single cask. That is precisely why we knew we had to have it when we were picking our barrels at the estate last year. Aged and bottled 100% at the domaine. Bottled exclusively for us. As its reputation follows, this rum is fruity and funky, full bodied and complex, bottled at a natural cask strength of 60% and not for the faint of heart. For the collectors, this is single cask ex-Bourbon No. 146.