Aroma visualization from community tastings
CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) HTR 1994
Tell me when it gets cheaper
Tell me when it's back in stock
Price alert in the RumX app
Open in the app
Got the app? Open this bottle
Opens this rum in the RumX app
Here's the honest split: most tasters call this a weak, atypical Caroni — thin, neutral, "almost like neutral alcohol," with barely any of the tar-and-diesel signature people buy Caroni for. One patient reviewer disagrees, saying it needs serious air, then opens into metallic gunpowder, citrus, honey, marzipan and licorice. At 57.8% it's dry and sharp either way. A single-cask gamble more than a safe Caroni.
The community says- Opens with air
- But: Faint Caroni notes
- But: Thin body
Offers & prices
View price history
Shopping safely on RumX Returns & cancellation
- Secure payment. You pay via RumX with PayPal, Klarna or card. Your payment data is encrypted and we never store your full card details.
- Clear seller. Sold and shipped directly by the partner shop. And you're never on your own: RumX handles support and communication with the shop, so you always get excellent service, whichever shop you order from.
- Honest shop ratings. The stars show your service experience with the shop, not the rum score. They come from RumX users, and critical ones stay visible.
- Returns & cancellation. Your purchase contract is with the shop, so returns and cancellations run through them under their own policy and your statutory rights. If anything goes wrong, RumX helps you sort it out.
10 more payment methodsOffers & prices
No shop currently delivers to Germany.
Live auctions
Current bids for this rum at Europe's leading auction houses.
The look inside the bottle
How does CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) HTR 1994 taste?
Summarized by AI from 14 community reviews.
Thin, atypical Caroni that divides tasters The rare Caroni most owners rate down — several call it the weakest they've had, faded and un-Caroni. One taster rescues it with a long rest.
Caroni completists who'll rest the glass
anyone wanting classic heavy tar-diesel Caroni
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
6 of 14 left detailed tasting impressions · Click an aroma to explore similar rums
Which glass for which rum? The community guide →
Recommendation
Your next rum
Each with how it differs from this rum.
Community voices
What does the community say?
14 community reviews
8 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app
Rate it in the app
Ranges include their upper bound: “7–8” means above 7 up to and including 8. See the full rating guide
Review by LukaŽiga
Most helpful positive review
7,6:On the nose, the first impression we get is not very pleasant, as the rum is heavy with metallic, synthetic and chemical touch, gunpowder as we were in some industrial work shop or similar. As it settles down, almond, citrus and tar could be noticed. Well, it looks like aeration is urgently needed, as we get a bit different colours with red fruits, honey, marzipan, some nuts, pear, going towards overripe tropical fruits. Basic medicinal notes stay, bit are more muted now. If well rested, the rum becomes darker with molasses and licorice, roasted with coffee, spicy with ginger and vanilla. We also find meat, peat and tobacco notes... Trinidadian dirty navy rhum as it is... Caroni. 8,4:On the palate, the attack is fruity with citrus and woody with tannins, roasted, medicinal with solvents, copper, burnt sugar, quite spicy. Quickly becomes dry, toasted with nuts, tropical fruits as maracuja, prunes. There is a nice honey touch and some caramel, tea. Going into more whisky notes with meat, peat, musty/ashy touch and tobacco. We cannot miss tar and finally herbal hints... Complex and well balanced, tasty. 8,1:The finish is long, woody, dry with tannins, dried fruits and vanilla, later with overripe tropical fruits, that become candied and honeyed, a bit spicy, musty and tar... Better than existing reviews show...It shines, becomes round, tasty after a nice rest...Trinidadian navy rhum...
Review by Dr.Django
Most helpful critical review
That's nothing at all. Perhaps the worst Caroni I've had on the palate. You can't taste anything of Caroni here. A very light, boring representative that doesn't live up to its name at all.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#6648 13.04.2026 Relaxing with a few samples after work while listening to some Armin van Buuren mixes ong Spotify. This is a pretty low end Caroni in my mind. The nose is light with light honey, fruits, light leather, light wood, faint tar, citrus and some chocolate. The palate is medium intense with a burnt note, light wood, citrus, chocolate, light tar, faint polish and light metallic. The finish is long and dry with wood, tannins, light roasted, dried fruit and light chocolate.
Review by Johannes
Very weak Caroni, little body, thin, virtually no typical Caroni notes, tastes almost like neutral alcohol.
Review by Jakob
Relatively neutral, a rather lightweight Caroni profile. Atypical for the vintage.
Review by Leo Krüper
Hooray, we have a bad Caroni in the Gaussian normal distribution. As a result, there are not only good Caronis in my bubble. Weak-breasted, slight Trinidad notes. Caroni not recognizable. Some herbs at the back. But that could really be everything here.
Review by Mike H.
A total desaster. Nothing much to taste except for an unpleasant alcohol note. Apart from that almost nothing shines through even though there are some slight notes in the background, but they are extremely weak as if they all faded away.
Review by zabo
I tested two samples of the CDI Caronis I found in my cabinet. Unfortunately, I have to say that this bottling isn't really good. Somehow the whole thing is too "dirty" for me, but not the kind of dirtiness I like in Caroni.
Community shelf
5 bottles logged by 4 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
60% opened, 3 emptied.
What did the community pay for CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) HTR 1994?
Avg. community purchase price 370 €.
What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.
5 purchased · 14 tasted · 2 wishlist · as of
Details about CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) HTR 1994
A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Compagnie des Indes, at 57.8%.
Read on in the RumX Guide
You may also enjoy
Rum enthusiasts who like this rum have also given the following rums high ratings:
Romdeluxe Chairman's Reserve Master Selection (Romdeluxe) 2000
CDI Caroni Trinidad 1998
Caroni S.B.S The Beast #3 1993
Rumclub Private Selection Soul of Trinidad (14. German Rumfest) 2025
Duncan Taylor Enmore Single Cask Rum 1990
CoR Hampden High Ester Rum (13. German Rum Festival) DOK 2023
Never miss a price drop.
Set a target price in the app, and we'll let you know as soon as the rum becomes available at that price from one of our partner stores. This works for any rum on your wish list.
Oliver · FounderBy rum lovers, for rum lovers
I'm Oliver, and RumX began in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.
Oliver, Stuttgart
About RumX →YouTube channel (in German)
