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9D077FDD-9400-4FBD-95AD-78B51494371DTrinidad Caroni Compagnie des Indes
CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) 1996 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 18 years · 61%

CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) 1996

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How does CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) 1996 taste?

Aggregated from 11 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?

7.6/10 Good

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

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Distribution of all 11 ratings
9–10 9%
8–9 18%
7–8 64%
6–7 9%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

Ranges include their upper bound: “7–8” means above 7 up to and including 8. See the full rating guide

Review by Michael Schou

Most helpful positive review

Michael Schou
May 2026458 reviewsDenmark
9.3/10

25-10-2025 - Rate 9.3 09-05-2026 - Rate 9.3 8th rum at birthday tasting All had Caroni on this one. Very clear in nose and taste. I know this one isn’t a favorite among the most, but I really like it and so does the rest of the guys around the table 😉

Review by DomM

Most helpful mixed review

DomM
Aug 20251,038 reviewsGermany
7.7/10

Dirt, vanilla and mint on the nose. Sweetness and vanilla on the plate. Only moderate hints of dirt. Not bad overall, but rather disappointing if in search of a Caroni profile imho.

Review by Oliver

Oliver
Feb 20231,232 reviewsGermany
7.3/10

Good continental Caroni

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Community shelf

7 bottles logged by 7 collectors.

A collector's bottle.

14% opened, 1 emptied.

6 sealed 0 open 1 emptied

What did the community pay for CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) 1996?

Avg. community purchase price 460 €.

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

7 purchased · 11 tasted · as of

Details about CDI Caroni Trinidad (Bottled for Denmark) 1996

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Compagnie des Indes, at 61%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
Raw materialMolasses
ABV61%
Age18 years
Vintage1996
Limited edition286 bottles
Sugar0 g/L
Volume70cl
Cask #SCT9
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 Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good your rum 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.