Magnum rum 3° Hampden LROK 2016 9 yo Vol.60% Cl.70

Magnum Hampden LROK 9 Y.O. 2016: the Magnum series continues and reaches its third edition in 2025.

This 9-year-old Hampden is part of the third edition of the now legendary Magnum series, born in 2021 from an idea by Luca Gargano, with the aim of bringing together the great masters of rum with the great photographers of the Magnum agency, founded in 1947 by legends such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

For its third edition, the Magnum range stops in Jamaica, specifically in Trelawny, in the heart of the Hampden distillery.

This year, Cristina De Middel, a Spanish photographer and Magnum Photos member, was invited by La Maison du Whisky and its Italian partner Velier to immerse herself in the world of Hampden for a week.

The Magnum Hampden LROK 9-year-old is accompanied by an image Cristina de Middel has called "Raatid": a Jamaican slang word often used to express surprise, or to describe the size of something.

The humid darkness of the fermentation room, the labyrinth of pipes, the overgrown facades, the iridescent peacocks, the dusty, humid rooms... through her lens and unexpected shots, Cristina De Middel imbues the places with a cinematic dimension, sometimes tinged with surrealism.

Four photographs taken during his journey have been selected to illustrate the bottlings of this new series of rums from different brands, distilled between 2016 and 2021.

For its third edition, the collection arrives in the Trelawny region of Jamaica, in the heart of the Hampden distillery, famous since 1753 for its aromatic and complex rums, produced using ancestral fermentation and distillation methods.

In 2009, ownership passed to the Hussey family, who began a new chapter in the distillery's history by aging rum on site for the first time, in Jamaica's tropical climate.

This rum was distilled in 2016 and comes from the LROK brand.

Tasting Notes:

Color: Deep, dark amber.

Aroma: Citrus, pink grapefruit zest, with vibrant notes of spice and coriander sweetened with toffee.

Palate: Balanced, with candied citrus, very elegant.

Finish: Fresh and aromatic, long.