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Velier Caroni Paradise #17 Heavy Trinidad Rum 2000 20cl bottle
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Aged rum · 20 years · 61%

Velier Caroni Paradise #17 Heavy Trinidad Rum 2000

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How does Velier Caroni Paradise #17 Heavy Trinidad Rum 2000 taste?

Aggregated from 11 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Mature & oaky

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas

Community voices

What does the community say?

9.2/10 Excellent

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

Top 4% of Trinidad rumsTop 7% at Caroni

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Distribution of all 11 ratings
9–10 64%
8–9 36%
7–8 0%
6–7 0%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

Ranges include their upper bound: “7–8” means above 7 up to and including 8. See the full rating guide

Review by Jakob

Jakob
Mar 20241,666 reviewsSwitzerland
8.8/10

Epic Velier Caroni Tasting 2023: Intense with lots of menthol, alcohol noticeable, good but not perfectly integrated - at least compared to other releases of the vintage. Nice 2000 without the ultimate complexity.

Review by Tafia Guildive

Tafia Guildive
Jul 202362 reviews
9.2/10

Great Caroni, clearly over 90 points.

Expert reviews

Reviews from RumX's blog partners, independent experts who have tasted, evaluated, and described this rum.

Expert review by Rob Bauer

Rob Bauer
9.0/10
So far the best Caroni 2000 in my book. Very complex, fruity Caroni. Mega.

Details about Velier Caroni Paradise #17 Heavy Trinidad Rum 2000

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Velier, at 61%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
BottlerVelier
Raw materialMolasses
ABV61%
Age20 years
Vintage2000
Bottled2026
Limited edition200 bottles
MarkHeavy Trinidad Rum
Sugar0 g/L
Volume20cl
Cask #4026
Single cask

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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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Rating guide

RumX's 0–10 scale is strict. Here's what each band means.

9.0–10.0 Excellent your rum Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
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.