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Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Finest Caribbean Rum HTR 1997 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 17 years · 57%

Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Finest Caribbean Rum HTR 1997

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How does Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Finest Caribbean Rum HTR 1997 taste?

Aggregated from 11 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas

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8.5/10 Very good

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

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9–10 0%
8–9 82%
7–8 18%
6–7 0%
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0–4 0%

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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Sep 20267,207 reviewsDenmark
8.6/10

#7275 11.09.2026 Relaxing after a good week and also preparing for tomorrows 20 km speedhike (at least for me) in Middelfart. Listening to some cool Goa Trance on Spotify while packing and readying my gear. Very nice Caroni and it had a nice price tag at release. Well balanced release with fruits, caramel, rubber, fuel, floral, tar, nutts, sice, olive, salt and a spicy finish.

Review by Tschusikowsky

Tschusikowsky
Apr 2022570 reviewsSwitzerland
8.0/10

Caroni without a doubt and not a bad one. But overall there is a lack of harmony that unites the flavors.

Review by Djehey

Djehey
Oct 2024511 reviewsFrance
8.7/10

The caroni markers are not very present. The rum needs to be allowed to breathe for these aromas to express themselves more fully. Barrel aromas dominate, with the presence of fruit, but more from the orchard. The texture lacks a little thickness. For me, a good rum, but one that some will surely consider too "light" for a caroni.

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3 bottles logged by 3 collectors.

A collector's bottle.

0% opened, 0 emptied.

3 sealed 0 open 0 emptied

What did the community pay for Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Finest Caribbean Rum HTR 1997?

Avg. community purchase price 181 €.

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Details about Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Finest Caribbean Rum HTR 1997

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Berry Bros & Rudd, at 57%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
Raw materialMolasses
ABV57%
Age17 years
Vintage1997
MarkHTR
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 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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