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6B18BC4F-1C36-4910-B0D8-62C297AA5E42Trinidad Caroni Sansibar
Sansibar Caroni Selection Sansibar HTR 1997 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 18 years · 51.9%

Sansibar Caroni Selection Sansibar HTR 1997

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How does Sansibar Caroni Selection Sansibar HTR 1997 taste?

Aggregated from 16 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

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

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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 88%
7–8 13%
6–7 0%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

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Review by alex

Most helpful positive review

alex
alex
Jan 2022422 reviewsFrance
9.0/10

It's very well done. After a long aeration, you find all the markers that make you love a Caroni. It's a delight. With a beautiful length.

Review by Oliver

Most helpful mixed review

Oliver
Jan 20211,232 reviewsGermany
7.8/10

Easy sipping Caroni.

Review by Jeremy Roger 🇫🇷

Jeremy Roger 🇫🇷
May 202171 reviewsFrance
8.8/10

First nose on metallic and rubber then comes the rest, it's round and attractive. The attack is soft and warm but yet does not lack flavor and intensity, a fruit and rubber compote creamy like hot chocolate ♨ It's very pleasant.

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Community shelf

17 bottles logged by 15 collectors.

A collector's bottle.

11% opened, 1 emptied.

15 sealed 1 open 1 emptied

What did the community pay for Sansibar Caroni Selection Sansibar HTR 1997?

Community paid 157–225 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 239 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →

17 purchased · 16 tasted · 4 wishlist · as of

Details about Sansibar Caroni Selection Sansibar HTR 1997

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Sansibar, at 51.9%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
BottlerSansibar
Raw materialMolasses
ABV51.9%
Age18 years
Vintage1997
Limited edition288 bottles
MarkHTR
Volume70cl
Cask #861
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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9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good your rum 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.