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La Maison & Velier Hampden LROK Single Cask for The Nectar LROK 2021
Buy this expecting Hampden funk and the sherry cask will ambush you — raisins, walnut, dried dates and a vineous bitterness that all but erases the LROK mark underneath. Several tasters say it "screams fortified wine" more than rum, with a musty, meaty, tannic finish that divides people hard. A few enjoy it after long oxidation; more call it a cask experiment gone too far.
The community says- Bold sherry cask
- Cask buries Hampden
- Vineous bitterness
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How does La Maison & Velier Hampden LROK Single Cask for The Nectar LROK 2021 taste?
Aggregated from 12 community reviews.
Sherry-bomb Hampden that buries the funk Genuinely polarizing. Most drinkers feel the ex-sherry cask smothered the Hampden and left it bitter and unbalanced; a minority insist it opens up given weeks of air.
experimental drinkers who love heavy sherry casks
anyone wanting classic Hampden ester funk
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How is La Maison & Velier Hampden LROK Single Cask for The Nectar LROK 2021 rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 5.9 sits in the “Average” band. 33% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 16% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
25% rate it between 6 and 8. 11 selected write-ups from 12 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by LukaŽiga
Most helpful positive review
8,3:On the nose, strong barrel impact with sherry like leather, dried dates, walnuts, meaty tones, slightly overpowering the notes like banana, flowery, herbaceous molasses with briny olive, some yeast, spicy touch. On aeration, the wood is roasted with coffee, cocoa, caramel, the molasses is musty, slightly dark with licorice, but still quite fresh with tea.Red fruits arise, sulphurous undertones. 8,2:On the palate, the attack is strong, syrupy with sherry barrel impact, again slightly overpowering Hampden markers, the oak is charred with dark chocolate, cocoa, meaty, leather and walnuts, peppery, dried fruits like raisins and apricots, dates, pineapple and banana participate, the molasses is bitter, musty, slightly flowery, vegetal with briny olive, chamomile...When the rum is well rested, plastic hints join. 8:The finish is long, due to strong barrel touch, dirty, dry and tannic, with charred wood, smoky, spicy, meaty, pairing dried, tropical, green, red and citrus fruits, slightly rotten and grassy, candied molasses, musty, earthy with tobacco..
Review by Skyfly
Most helpful critical review
I just don't understand how you can mess up a Hampden like this. The sherry cask overpowers everything, so sherry, red wine, and wood dominate. A bit of orange peel and mustiness join in — you can't taste anything from the LROK.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#6417 01.03.2026 Relaxing with this sherry bomb while watching the new movie "The Bluff". This rum was destroyed by the cask in my mind and all balance has gone. In my mind an example of how wrong things can go when you cask wrong or for too long.
Review by Johannes
Wow, the sherry is way too dominant, it crushes everything. Hampden is basically unrecognizable. Could be some Cuban rum as well.
Review by Rum Watcher
Love it or hate it, there is nothing in between. Sure the nose immediately show the casktyp and we all know, it’s not the most beloved one in the rumworld, but wait how it’s developing in open bottles. This juice needs time and oxidation.
Review by Rhum Mirror 🇧🇪
Hampden LROK 2021 – The Nectar – 63% Un Hampden vieilli 4 ans dans un fût expérimental ex-sherry de la maison Fundador, mark LROK, sélectionné par The Nectar et embouteillé à 63%. Dès le nez, pas de doute : on est bien sur un vieillissement en fût de sherry. La trame Hampden reste très discrète, presque effacée. Profil atypique et déconcertant : truffe, amertume vineuse, bois humide, caoutchouc... Un embouteillage vraiment particulier, qui ressemble davantage à une expérience, mais pas franchement réussie à mon goût. Une grosse déception pour cette sélection The Nectar ! À moins qu’il ne lui faille un peu d’oxydation pour se révéler ?
Review by Steffen Feddersen
Først rammes man af en duft at overmoden banan og derefter af varm ananas. Her efter mødes jeg af en sherry duft Ved første smag tørre munden helt ud for efterfølgende at producere masser af mundvand der afslør en smag af træ og bær samt en dejlig olieret og behagelig fornemmelse. Mellem lang eftersmag Et dejligt og meget godt glas
Review by zabo
Oh Mann, was ist den das für eine eckelhafte Abfüllung? Das Finish leistet hier ganze Arbeit, aber im negativsten Sinne den man sich vorstellen kann. Wie kann man nur sowas auf den Markt bringen und dann noch zu so einem Preis??? Das hat nicht mal 4 verdient, was für trinkbar steht.
Review by DutchRumPirate
As soon as it's in your glass, raisins are flying all around you. A very intense sherry aroma. The same on the palate. Totally not what you expect from this bottle. The cask has completely dominated the rum. No real Hampden influences recognizable anymore. Very sherry and raisin. Alcohol not well integrated. For me, this one is too intense and out of balance.
Review by Timo Groeger
Ich weiß ja echt nicht, ob ich jemals schon so einen schlechten Hampden hatte. Hier übertüncht das Sherryfass wirklich alles, Hampden ist hier so gar nicht erkennbar. Etwas Holz gibt es am Gaumen auch noch
Review by Rare Akuma
Tasted at SITS ‘25. The nose immediately reveals the cask type. Notes of dried dates, peppers, salty seabreeze and walnut skins. It smells very sweet, almost syrupy with fermented fruit sugars. Otherwise very bitter and musty, and all round screaming fortified wine more than anything. The HD underneath releases light hints of unripe banana and a strange off-putting yeast and rancid meat note. On the palate again dried fruits, oily citrus and an obscene amount of wine and walnut bitterness. More strange hints of minced meat left out in the sun, burnt wet wood and plastics. Unfortunately even more prominent than on the nose. The finish is much too dominant, astringend and leaves a long lingering taste of cured and rancid meats. Perhaps this is just not my cup of tea, or perhaps I just don’t ‘get it’, but for me this classifies as an experiment gone too far, a faulty product that should not have been bottled. It’s interesting in a way, just like the NRJ TECA ‘03, but done much worse.
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Details about La Maison & Velier Hampden LROK Single Cask for The Nectar LROK 2021
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by La Maison & Velier, at 63%.
Community purchases
7 bottles logged by 7 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
14% opened, 0 emptied and repurchased.
What does La Maison & Velier Hampden LROK Single Cask for The Nectar LROK 2021 cost?
Community paid 118–166 €.
Current best price: 146.44 € – within the typical community range.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
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The Hampden distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Hampden have been reviewed 19,877 times with an average of 8.4/10.
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