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Habitation Velier Hampden C<>H 2010
The surprise here is how tame 68.5% can feel — tasters keep saying the alcohol sits "almost round," despite one of Hampden's highest ester marks. Expect a wall of glue and acetone up front, then overripe banana, grilled pineapple and mango, with dark chocolate and toffee closing a very long finish. Tropically aged, funky, and dense. One reviewer called it a "goddess disguised as a berserker."
The community says- Glue-and-fruit funk
- Integrated high ABV
- Endless finish
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How does Habitation Velier Hampden C<>H 2010 taste?
Aggregated from 152 community reviews.
Massive, funky tropical Hampden, beautifully integrated Something close to a consensus favorite among Hampden fans — huge esters and tropical fruit with the ABV shockingly well integrated. The only real gripe: hard to find and very intense for newcomers.
Hampden and high-ester funk devotees
Beginners — it's fierce and glue-heavy
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2% rate it between 6 and 8. 20 selected write-ups from 152 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by TheRhumhoe
This Hampden C<>H is a force of nature, a raw, yet incredibly complex aromatic concentrate. The nose is powerful and lively, intensely fruity and phenolic, with some very pleasant pastry touches that round out the edges. On the palate, we find a thick, fat and oily rum, very concentrated on notes of tropical fruits, citrus fruits, some fermented notes but also a floral and spicy touch, then some leather. The 68.5% are relatively discreet. The whole is impressively round. The finish continues the pleasure of Jamaican funk with also a touch of olive, tannins but also chocolate and a salty touch. A Jamaican rum in its pure state, extremely tasty and balanced. Great art.
Review by Dr.Django
Heute gibts die absolute Champions League im Glas: Warren Khong Hampden, HV HGML, HV c<>h 2010. Im Vergleich zeigt sich der Warren Khong fast schon entspannt und elegant, sehr süffig. Der HGML ist der fruchtigste, unglaublich intensiv fruchtig. Mein Favorit ist aber eindeutig der C<>H, am intensivsten und mit dem längsten Abgang. Drei absolute top Rums! Mein Ranking hat sich über die Jahre hier nicht verändert.
Review by Galli33
WoW what an amazing rum 😍 The best of Hampden i ever had in the glass, so far. Nose: Wonderfull synergy of funk, ester, trop. fruits and glue. Mouth: The alcohol is perfectly integrated🫠Very delicious, balanced, complex rum, some nice lovely notes of overripe fruits and pineapple. Finish: Is quite long and fruity with some notes of the barrel with a lightly astringency. 🤤🤤
Review by Stefan L
Holy Sh**t! I’m in love 😍 3rd time tasting this one and it still outbeats all other rums I ever tasted. And now at my 4th tasting my fantastic friends ❤️ just gave me a whole bottle of this diamond. 🥰🥰 5th tasting… Goosebumps just goosebumps ✨✨ Xth tasting… just love… just love ❤️❤️ - Another two years sine last tasting. This is spectacular on all levels and HOLY FUCK!!! This is still extraordinary!!! - 260109: Several years later and this still beats everything for me. 😍😍
Review by Jakob
Absolutely brute high-ester Hampden and one of the best tropically aged Hampden to date: fruit esters, wood, spices, rich caramel sweetness. If you like high-proof fruit bombs in a glass, you have to try this rum.
Review by Oliver
Tropical Hampden Power!
Review by Adrian Wahl
What a board. The level is simply unbelievably high. Certainly one of the highlights of what I have opened this year in bottles. For most, this is only a speculative object anyway, but the opening is so worth it. Absolutely brute good stuff.
Review by Tschusikowsky
Ya man...massive respect🇯🇲🎉 a great rum, a lot of fun to drink
Review by Christoph
Overripe banana with some sweet pineapple in a cloud of the HD typical fermented fruit. In the mouth a brilliant and pure sweet tropical fruits that open every pore on the tongue. The finish adds something smoky, even slightly nutty, while the pineapple remains present.
Review by Christoph H.
A Hampden that used to be too intense for me and I could hardly relate to. By now, I've generally come back to Hampden and I also really, really like the C<>H. It's still extreme, definitely. But I’m into it, and you definitely have to give it the necessary time.
Review by cigares
A nose of esters, overripe fruits, tropical fruits, but also wood glue, fermentation with a nice pastry sweetness in the background. A powerful but balanced palate between esters, wood glue, overripe fruits, the pastry side, and yellow fruits. The finish is long, balanced but powerful, complex and tasty. In my opinion, this rum stands out in the small tasting of Hampden's High Esters.
Review by LukaŽiga
9,3:On the nose, esters, solvents, varnish and glue, overripe, fermented tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, citrus fruits, roasted wood notes like chocolate, roasted nuts, pastry, spicy vanilla, bump into our nosetrils, with almost perfect balance, yet complexity. On aeration, sweet, buttery, caramelized notes, with mango, round up rum to our highest expectations. 9,3:On the palate, the attack is funky with medicinal notes like esters, glue, sweet, creamy with cream toffee, overripe, fermented tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, citrus fruits, later red fruits and dried apricots, raisins, some of the fruits are candied.On oxidation, the molasses brings briny olive, hints of tea, balances the sweetness from the beginning, some spices and leather join... 9,2:The finish is long, dry, round, balanced, sweet, creamy with the palate notes lingering on, slightly smoky. Edit:24.1.2026, oxidation helps, an upgrade to 9,3
Review by Rene Pfeiffer
Ist wohl für mich der Referenz Hampden, wenn es um tropische Reifung geht. Hier ist die Fruchtigkeit deutlich vorne und das Holz kommt erst dezent und erst im Abgang stärker. Den hohen Alkohol finde ich sehr gut eingebunden. Top Rum.
Review by Skyfly
Eine echte Ester-Granate und tropische Fruchtbombe! Habe selten einen so guten Rum getrunken und bin froh mir neben dem Sample noch eine ganze Flasche gesichert zu haben. Von Nase bis Abgang eine ausgewogene und sehr komplexe Mischung aus Estern, tropischen Früchten (insbesondere Ananas und Banane), daneben viel Lack/ Klebstoff und im Abgang sogar ein Hauch Schokolade
Review by Serge
Great rum. Perfect combo of tropical maturation, fruit, spice and esters. A real grenade with great warmth over the fireworks of pineapple, banana, mango, heavy sweetness, wood, glue and glue. Not comparable with the ridiculously short-aged HV bottlings that are now being released.
Review by Domi Mal
The nose simply blows you away despite the 2 hours in the glass! Full in the face, ester whip at its finest! Wow is this spicy, fruity, fermented, banana, pineapple, pastry reminds me a little of the tropical HV Long Pond Teca 2005, not so brutal but the spiciness is very nice! On the palate, no wonder, a lot of ester, but the fruit and spiciness are not neglected! You can clearly taste the tropical maturation, rough and with rough edges that are simply great. Classic Hampden notes emerge beautifully in the mouth after a while! Very long finish - outstanding! Excellent distillate! Never had a better tropical C<>H in my glass!
Review by DomM
Very nice and potent Hampden nose. Funky with lots of tropical fruits including characteristic grilled pineapple. While ester heavy still complex and very well balanced. This is top notch. Even better on the palate. Funky with an intense basket of tropical fruits. Full-bodied with nicely integrated alcohol and only the slightest hint of astringency despite its high ABV and ester content. Tropically aged high proof, high ester Hampden and at that - alongside the HV 2010 HGML - the best I had so far.
Review by Sebastian Kornett
Funky grenade again and again. Such a great high ester rum 😍😎
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
After trying this rum I promptly order a few extra for my shelf, that's how good it is in my mind. The nose is absolutely wonderfully fruity (overripe) with the normal funk and esters. The nose is there as soon as you open the bottle and it just gets better when resting. The palate lives up to the nose. A complex, full bodied and intense experience again with overripe fruits and ester and a hint of barrel in the back. The finish is like forever, sweet with tropical fruits and a hint of barrel.
Review by Benoit Mahe
The nose is pastry-like. The palate confirms the impression of a pastry nose, with fruit and esters. The finish is superb, between almond and tropical fruit. A great success.
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Details about Habitation Velier Hampden C<>H 2010
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Habitation Velier, at 68,5%.
Community purchases
288 bottles logged by 186 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
17% opened, 26 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Habitation Velier Hampden C<>H 2010?
Community paid 152–350 €.
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288 purchased · 155 tasted · 136 wishlist · as of
About the Hampden distillery
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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