Single Cask Rum, 'Jamaica - Hampden 2014', Holmes Cay

• Single cask rum distilled by Hampden Estate in Trelawny, Jamaica, and bottled by Holmes Cay • Diamond H (H) marque • Produced from a blend of molasses, fermented sugarcane juice skimmings, dunder, and muck • Open fermented for 10 days using ambient yeasts • Double distilled in copper pot stills • Aged 10 years; aged 4 years in Jamaica and 6 years in the UK before being bottled in New York State • Big aromas of tropical fruit and caramel on the nose precede a bold palate of young pineapple, mango, pickled lemon, and allspice with ripe pineapple, espresso, and tobacco on the long finish • No sugar, coloring, or other additives • Non-chill filtered; 62% ABV Holmes Cay’s first single cask release from Jamaica’s legendary Hampden Estate was distilled from one of the distillery’s high-ester marques, H or Diamond H, a Continental Flavored Rum (a high-ester style of rum traditionally exported for blending and flavoring) with ester counts between 900 and 1000 grams per hectoliter of absolute alcohol (g/hL AA). For reference, Hampden’s notoriously potent Rum Fire—a Light Continental Flavored Rum—may only reach a maximum ester count of 600 g/hL. The H marque is known for a particular concentration of fruity esters responsible for the distillery’s signature pineapple-and-ripe-banana-forward profile.