Magnum Series #3 Hampden HGML

Whiskyfun"1,200 bottles and 600 magnums available. With these superlative rums, the bottles are safer, you can make your way through one and live to tell the tale, which is not quite guaranteed with a magnum. Apologies for the perhaps overly Bukowskiesque aside. Indeed, WF hasn’t been banned yet, much to our own astonishment. HGML means high-ester, between 1,000 and 1,300 gr/HLPA. Hold on tight… Colour: gold. Nose: criminally glorious, fat, pure, fruity (think fruit eaux-de-vie), and brimming with essential oils, terpenes and various hydrocarbons, yet delivered with a certain poise. Almost. With water: a strikingly fermentary side emerges, quite beautiful, with plenty of acetone and even some ammonia. Mouth (neat): more brutal and, crucially, drier. Fir bud schnaps, anchovy brine, kelp, industrial glue… With water: still brutal, grippy, domineering and ultra-rustic, with an enormous amount of salt. Finish: very long and finishing on a family-sized bag of ultra-salty Dutch liquorice with not a speck of sugar in sight. Comments: for the masochists—and I must humbly admit I’m among them, under these circumstances. " - 91/100 point