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Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1994 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 23 years · 59.8%

Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1994

9.0/10Excellent
Rated by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰, Oliver & 10 more ↓
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How does Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1994 taste?

Aggregated from 12 community reviews.

Tar Rubber Vanilla Caramel Minty Roasted +3

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Caramel
Spice
Vanilla
Wood
Barrel
Dried fruit
Roasted & dark
TarRubberRoasted
Fruit
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral
Minty
Top aromas · nose & palate
Tar80%
Rubber60%
Vanilla60%
Caramel60%
Minty · palate only60%
Roasted · nose only60%
Barrel · palate only40%
Polish · nose only40%
Tropical fruits · nose only40%

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9.0/10 Excellent

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

Top 10% of Trinidad rumsTop 19% at Caroni

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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Dec 20227,207 reviewsDenmark
9.2/10

What a way to end the evening. All bang for your bucks. Thanks to the host for giving us a go at this nice bottle. All the car one flavours are there, it's intense and complex and the roasted notes compliment the overall profile.

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Review by Oliver

Oliver
Oliver
Apr 20231,232 reviewsGermany
9.0/10

Very good representative of the 1994 vintage! In the nasi great Caroni DNA without being too dirty. Then perfectly balanced on the palate with a great bitterness and mint. A real experience!

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Review by Maxence

Maxence
Maxence
Jan 2024185 reviews
9.1/10

Legendary release from Velier. It is more or less the same profile as 1994 Guyana Yellow with a way better balanced mouth. Truely amazing 😋

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Community shelf

5 bottles logged by 5 collectors.

A collector's bottle.

0% opened, 0 emptied.

5 sealed 0 open 0 emptied

What did the community pay for Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1994?

Avg. community purchase price 6956 €.

What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.

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Details about Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1994

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Velier, at 59.8%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
BottlerVelier
StyleAged rum, Rarities
Raw materialMolasses
ABV59.8%
Age23 years
Vintage1994
Limited edition109 bottles
MarkHTR
Volume70cl
Cask #R6126

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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.

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

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Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1994
Velier Caroni Heavy Trinidad Rum HTR 1994
Trinidad · 59.8% · 70cl

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.