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Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 23 years · 59,2%

Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982

8.8/10Very good
11 reviews › Rated by Jakob, Oliver & 9 more ›
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Buy this expecting classic Caroni tar and you'll do a double-take: the Paxarette sherry treatment all but buries it. What's left is a heavy, almost oily sweetness — dried fruit, raisin, oak, vanilla and caramel, with only a faint mineral streak and hints of coffee and chocolate hinting at where it came from. Several members love it on its own terms; just don't reach for it wanting the dirty, petrol-heavy Caroni signature.

The community says
  • Rich sherry nose
  • Oily dried-fruit body
  • But: Heavy Paxarette

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How does Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982 taste?

Summarized by AI from community reviews.

Sherry-soaked Caroni, more raisin than tar Divides the room: a rich, sherried sipper most rate highly, but seasoned tasters warn the Paxarette runs so strong the Caroni character nearly vanishes.

Oak Raisin Chocolate Cinnamon Syrupy Tar +8
Perfect for

sherry lovers and Velier Caroni collectors

Less suitable for

anyone chasing classic tarry Caroni funk

Experience level · Expert (4/5)
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Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
On the nose
Tar 3×Chocolate 3×Cinnamon 3×Molasses 2×Caramel 2×Oak 2×Allspice 2×Raisin
On the palate
Raisin 3×Syrupy 3×Oak 3×Vanilla 3×Nutty 2×Licorice 2×Prunes 2×Mineral 2×

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What does the community say?

8.8/10 Very good

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

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Review by Jakob

Jakob
Jakob
Dec 20231,666 reviewsSwitzerland
8.4/10

Epic Velier Caroni Tasting 2023: Very sweet, lots of sherry and paxarette influence. Heavy, almost oily sweetness of dried fruit, oak, vanilla and caramel, plus light minerality, slightly spicy-tart notes of allspice, coffee, chocolate and some minerality - the Caroni DNA is almost non-existent. As this is an LTR Caroni, none of this comes as a surprise. A very good rum, but it has little to do with Caroni in the classic or HTR sense.

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Review by Oliver

Oliver
Oliver
Apr 20231,232 reviewsGermany
9.0/10

Very cool nose with lots of sherry associations. Quite special, but I like it very much.

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Review by Johannes

Johannes
Johannes
May 20233,221 reviewsGermany
8.8/10

Epic Velier Caroni Tasting: Alcohol not so well integrated, very drinkable, sherry notes, somewhat weak.

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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
8.2/10
Paxarette without end. Far too strong sherry influence

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11 bottles logged by 10 collectors.

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0% opened, 0 emptied.

11 sealed 0 open 0 emptied

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Details about Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Velier, at 59,2%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
BottlerVelier
StyleAged rum, Rarities
Raw materialMolasses
ABV59,2%
Age23 years
Vintage1982
Limited edition1,164 bottles
MarkLight Trinidad Rum
Volume70cl

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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 in the early 2000s 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, even though auction prices for some Velier Caronis have fallen since 2022.

Bottler Velier Who is Velier? 
Country Trinidad The odd one out 

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Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982

Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982
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Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982
Trinidad · 24 years · 55.2%
8.6/10 (12 reviews)
3,300.00 €
incl. shipping · 4,714.29 € per litre

Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1982

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Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1982
Trinidad · 24 years · 58.3%
9.2/10 (38 reviews)
2,200.00 €
incl. shipping · 3,142.86 € per litre

Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1982

Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1982
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Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1982
Trinidad · 23 years · 77.3%
9.2/10 (14 reviews)
12,500.00 €
incl. shipping · 17,857.14 € per litre

Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1984

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9.2/10 (19 reviews)
5,500.00 €
incl. shipping · 7,857.14 € per litre

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Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982
Velier Caroni Light Trinidad Rum 1982
Trinidad · 59,2% · 70cl

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