HD 1998, 23 years, Jamaica edition No. 7
An unnamed pot-distilled rum from a traditional distillery in Jamaica. Jamaican distilleries are famous for using dunder or muck to create high concentrations of acids for use in fermentation. The end result is a menu of rums with different levels of that characteristic Jamaican "funk" and complexity.
This 23yo Jamaican rum was bottled from a single cask which yielded 247 bottles. It spent 23 years in the Old Continent. Distilled in 1998 in a pot still, and matured in an ex-rum oak barrel, before being bottled at 58,7% ABV.
This rum is made from HLCF mark, and HLCF means Hampden Light Continental Flavored, with a high concentration of esters, i.e. from 400 to 600 gr / hlpa.
Jamaica 1998 edition no. 7
Region: Jamaica
Distillery: HD
Age: 23
Distillation: 12-1998
Bottled: 04-2022
Cask no: 7
Cask type: Ex-Rum
Still type: Pot
Maturation: Continental Ageing
ABV 58,7%
Vol. 700 ml
No bottles: 247
Tasting Notes:
“The marque here was 'HLCF', that's 500-700 gr esters per HLPA. Medium at Hampden, huge almost anywhere else! Colour: white wine. Nose: I'm not sure you can beat these olives, chalk, samphires, model glue and overripe bananas. With water: new bicycle inner tube, retsina, perhaps fennel seeds, capers. Mouth (neat): perhaps a notch sweeter than others, perhaps a tad heavier on tar and salty chutneys as well, it's even a tad shochu-y, in a way, it should go well with fatty meats and some cheeses, such as our beloved comté. Or with Moroccan garlic and pil-pil prawns (aren't we hungry now?) With water: this one will definitely work wonders with spicy food. Finish: very long, sublimely liquoricy and salty. Logically, there's a lot of salty liquorice in the aftertaste. Comments: there are many tinier flavours and aromas that we haven't even mentioned. Desert island dram, as they say on the continent.”
Note: SGP:463 - 91 points.
Source: whiskyfun.com
