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36386B56-5F8C-4C72-9CB1-71010748BA86Trinidad Caroni Rum Nation
Rum Nation Caroni Small Batch Rare Rums HTR 1997 50cl bottle
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Aged rum · 21 years · 59.2%

Rum Nation Caroni Small Batch Rare Rums HTR 1997

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How does Rum Nation Caroni Small Batch Rare Rums HTR 1997 taste?

Aggregated from 16 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Spice
Wood
Dried fruit
Roasted & dark
PeatTarBurnt
Fruit
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral

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What does the community say?

8.4/10 Very good

16 community reviews
3 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app

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Distribution of all 16 ratings
9–10 0%
8–9 63%
7–8 13%
6–7 19%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 6%

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Review by Mirko Frosini 🇮🇪

Most helpful positive review

Mirko Frosini 🇮🇪
Mirko Frosini 🇮🇪
Dec 2022152 reviewsItaly
8.5/10

An atypical Caroni and in this case the price is justified only because of its rarity because the rum itself is an interesting experiment, but we are certainly not looking at a classic Caroni. It is an experiment that brings rum together with whiskey because if on the nose it retains the Caroni imprint on the palate instead it seems like a peaty whiskey. If one wants to buy his first Caroni it is best to stay away from it because disappointment and expense would be inevitable. If, on the other hand, you want to try a nice rum aged in the West in whiskey barrels then it may be a good choice. Clearly the price does not help at all.

Review by Johannes

Most helpful mixed review

Johannes
Aug 20223,209 reviewsGermany
7.0/10

Unfortunately the whisky finish does not really suit my taste.

Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
May 20217,207 reviewsDenmark
8.9/10

Retasting 21.05.2021 and it got a few more points :-) This is a great Caroni and there is no doubt as soon as you nose the glass. Typical Caroni notes from the start. If you rest it for a hole those flavours just keep coming and it continues on to the palate with a nicely complex taste and a dry spice finish. A great bottle that I recommend people to try if they like Caroni as well as Trinidadian rum.

Community shelf

46 bottles logged by 33 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

17% opened, 6 emptied.

38 sealed 2 open 6 emptied

What did the community pay for Rum Nation Caroni Small Batch Rare Rums HTR 1997?

Community paid 191–267 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 216 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →

46 purchased · 16 tasted · 11 wishlist · as of

Details about Rum Nation Caroni Small Batch Rare Rums HTR 1997

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Rum Nation, at 59.2%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
BottlerRum Nation
Raw materialMolasses
ABV59.2%
Age21 years
Vintage1997
Limited edition860 bottles
MarkHTR
Sugar0 g/L
Volume50cl

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Caroni

Distillery

Caroni 

Avg Rating 8.8/10 over 620 Rums

No closed distillery is chased harder than Caroni. The Trinidad distillery shut down around 2002 and not a drop has been made since, but its heavy, oily, almost diesel-like rum became a collector obsession, carried to the world by Velier. Every bottle now comes from a finite, shrinking stock, which is exactly why the prices keep climbing.

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6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
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4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.