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8B7AB39D-8FB7-4ED2-9BBC-DD3DAD373554Trinidad Caroni That Boutique-Y Rum Company
TBRC Caroni HTR 1998 50cl bottle
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Aged rum · 20 years · 53.7%

TBRC Caroni HTR 1998

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How does TBRC Caroni HTR 1998 taste?

Aggregated from 14 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?

8.6/10 Very good

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

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Distribution of all 14 ratings
9–10 7%
8–9 93%
7–8 0%
6–7 0%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

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Review by Jakob

Jakob
Apr 20251,666 reviewsSwitzerland
8.1/10

Beautiful, almost relaxed Heavy Caroni. Pleasant drinking strength, balanced profile - overall at a very good level, without setting exceptional accents. Boutique-y actually offers a very solid level of quality across the board with its Caroni releases.

Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Jul 20267,207 reviewsDenmark
8.5/10

#6993 04.07.2026 Relaxing with a few samples while watching a scary program about child killing at a very young age. A nice Caroni with a pretty decent price tag at release (thinking about it is a Caroni). Fresh and fruity with nutts, molasses, light smoke, tobacco and roasted wood.

Expert reviews

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Expert review by New World Rum Club

1st Caroni and 1st tasting on RumX. Very complex, needed few drops of water to reduce intensity and definitely need a few more tries to pick out all the flavours. I feel rating this rum on a 1-100 is unfair by itself but I’ll learn my own way of giving a score with more reviews. Definitely not put off by the Caroni HTR and looking to delve more into this world. Bring it on…!

Community shelf

25 bottles logged by 25 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

24% opened, 2 emptied.

19 sealed 4 open 2 emptied

What did the community pay for TBRC Caroni HTR 1998?

Community paid 167–289 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 193 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →

25 purchased · 14 tasted · 9 wishlist · as of

Details about TBRC Caroni HTR 1998

A Column Still Rum from Trinidad, bottled by That Boutique-Y Rum Company, at 53.7%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
CategoryColumn Still Rum
Raw materialMolasses
DistillationColumn Still
ABV53.7%
Age20 years
Vintage1998
Limited edition501 bottles
MarkHTR
Volume50cl
Cask #Batch 1

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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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2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
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