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Milano Rum Festival & Barmetro Caroni HTR 1997 50cl bottle
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Aged rum · 19 years · 57%

Milano Rum Festival & Barmetro Caroni HTR 1997

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How does Milano Rum Festival & Barmetro Caroni HTR 1997 taste?

Aggregated from 9 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Sipping neat

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8.4/10 Very good

9 community reviews
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Distribution of all 9 ratings
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8–9 78%
7–8 22%
6–7 0%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Most helpful positive review

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Jan 20247,207 reviewsDenmark
8.8/10

03.01.2020 In a cottage with friends for the weekend with a few bottles of rum. Notes: Dark in colour. Nose: Wood, roasted, rubber, tar, cherry, mint, light caramel. Palate: Oily, wood, roasted, rubber, light tar, dried fruit, vegetal, dry. Finish: Long and dry, wood, light nutts, light smoke, cherry, rubber, tar.

Review by cigares

Most helpful mixed review

cigares
Jul 20251,173 reviewsSwitzerland
7.9/10

A first nose of wet dog with medicinal bitterness, dry acidity, but immediately beautiful overripe tropical fruits take center stage. The kind of fruits from the 1998 vintage. The first palate is both fruity and bitter, acidic and medicinal. Not much harmony here. But things improve to reach a somewhat decent finish where the fruits are present.

Review by Jakob

Jakob
Apr 20251,666 reviewsSwitzerland
7.8/10

Crosstasting 1997 Caronis from continental storage: Expressive Caroni with a present HTR profile. Alcohol recognizable, without final balance - the lack of balance costs a few rating points.

Expert reviews

2 critics scored it, averaging 8.5/10. Reviews from RumX's blog partners, independent experts who have tasted, evaluated, and described this rum.

Community shelf

11 bottles logged by 10 collectors.

A collector's bottle.

0% opened, 0 emptied.

11 sealed 0 open 0 emptied

What did the community pay for Milano Rum Festival & Barmetro Caroni HTR 1997?

Community paid 149–240 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 230 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →

11 purchased · 9 tasted · 2 wishlist · as of

Details about Milano Rum Festival & Barmetro Caroni HTR 1997

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Milano Rum Festival & Barmetro, at 57%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
Raw materialMolasses
ABV57%
Age19 years
Vintage1997
Limited edition390 bottles
MarkHTR
Volume50cl
Cask #62
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.
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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.