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Raising Glasses Caroni Perennia (No Imperialism) 1997 37cl bottle
Aged rum · 27 years · 58%

Raising Glasses Caroni Perennia (No Imperialism) 1997

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How does Raising Glasses Caroni Perennia (No Imperialism) 1997 taste?

Aggregated from 5 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Sipping neat

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

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What does the community say?

9.3/10 Excellent

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

Top 2% of Trinidad rumsTop 4% at Caroni

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Distribution of all 5 ratings
9–10 60%
8–9 40%
7–8 0%
6–7 0%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

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Review by Ian Gilman

Ian Gilman
Aug 2025155 reviewsUSA
9.3/10

Another rum too complex for the long night of tastings but it hit the Caroni notes I’d hoped for. The industrial notes were present throughout and well balanced by some bright fruity notes like hard strawberry candies.

Review by jayelle

jayelle
May 202688 reviewsUSA
8.8/10

Nose is very potent. Alcohol heat, but also some industrial vibes. Char grilled chicken? Some sort of carbon cooked protein. Fruity pebbles. Lots going on. Taste has some alcohol heat, but not a lot considering the ABV. Big fruit juiciness on the finish. Strawberry. Lasts a while. Not getting much industrial harshness on the taste. It's just beautifully fruity. Like a gusher bursting with sweetness. Wow, I totally get the hard strawberry candies on the finish like one other viewer said. I never would have put that in to words. I know when I first bought these bottles, and opened one, I was disappointed. Caroni was supposed to be industrial bombs, but this is fruity AF. Earlier in my rum journey, but I think it's also opened up in the open bottle some. Shoe knows what a good value equates to, but I'm glad I have 3 of these bottles, despite the price.

Community shelf

56 bottles logged by the RumX community.

A collector's bottle.

8% opened, 1 emptied.

51 sealed 4 open 1 emptied

What did the community pay for Raising Glasses Caroni Perennia (No Imperialism) 1997?

Avg. community purchase price 235 €.

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Details about Raising Glasses Caroni Perennia (No Imperialism) 1997

A Column Still Rum from Trinidad, bottled by Raising Glasses, at 58%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
CategoryColumn Still Rum
Raw materialMolasses
DistillationColumn Still
ABV58%
Age27 years
Vintage1997
Limited edition378 bottles
Sugar0 g/L
Volume37cl

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Caroni

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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 your rum Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
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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.