Cuvée presentation
Bottle available from November 2025
For its third edition, the Magnum range is making a stop in Jamaica, specifically in the parish of Trelawny, at the heart of the Hampden distillery. This year, Cristina De Middel, a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos, has been invited by La Maison du Whisky and its Italian partner Velier to immerse herself into the world of Hampden for a week. The clammy darkness of the fermentation room, the labyrinth of pipes, facades overgrown with vegetation, peacocks with iridescent feathers, dusty rooms dripping with damp… through her lens and unexpected framing, Cristina De Middel gives the locations a cinematic dimension, sometimes tinged with surrealism. In addition to the four photographs chosen to illustrate the classic bottlings from the range, 21 photographs from the series– inspiration for The Fragrance of Trelawny exhibition–have been kept to adorn these 21 unique magnums. Each of these bottles offers a rum from a different mark and vintage: so many original expressions that allow us to discover the unfathomable complexity of Hampden.
4 pieces Limited Edition
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About Cristina De Middel - For its third edition, the Magnum range makes a stop in Jamaica and more specifically in the parish of Trelawny, at the heart of the Hampden distillery. This year, Cristina De Middel, a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos, has been invited by La Maison du Whisky and its Italian partner Velier to immerse herself into the world of Hampden for a week. The clammy darkness of the fermentation room, the labyrinth of pipes, facades overgrown with vegetation, peacocks with iridescent feathers, dusty rooms dripping with damp… through her lens and unexpected framing, Cristina De Middel gives the locations a cinematic dimension, sometimes tinged with surrealism. In addition to the four photographs chosen to illustrate the classic bottlings from the range, 21 photographs from the series– inspiration for The Fragrance of Trelawny exhibition–have been kept to adorn these 21 unique magnums. Each of these bottles offers a rum from a different mark and vintage: so many original expressions that allow us to discover the unfathomable complexity of Hampden.
The distillery Hampden
Rum, Jamaica. Distillery operational. Owner: Everglades Farms Ltd.
Independent & family-ownedKnown primarily in the rum, perfume and food industries, Hampden began to move out of the shadows in 2009 when the Jamaican government decided to disinvest from the national Jamaica Sugar Company and auctioned off its assets. The family-owned company Everglades Farms Ltd (owned by the Hussey family) secured the lot and became the owner of this gem which is now considered the alter ego of the Scottish distillery Ardbeg. This link with Scotland is no coincidence. Hampden Estate was bought in 1748 by Robert Stirling, who had left Perthshire (Scotland) in 1742. The Hussey family sells two expressions of its rum, including an Overproof which is particularly well-known in the bar and HORECA segment. But it was in 2017, when family-owned Italian (Velier) and French (LMDW) companies began distributing the first old rums, that Hampden really took off, rising to the ranks of the finest rums currently on the market.
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