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Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Trinidad Rum HTR 1997 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 19 years · 46%

Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Trinidad Rum HTR 1997

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8.2/10 Very good

8 community reviews
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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Mar 20267,207 reviewsDenmark
8.0/10

#6525 21.03.2026 Day two part three of todays evening tasting with a few friends. Today the music is a bit different because not all like my Trance and Psy Trance, so we have settled on some EDM and hits from the 80s Thank you Alexander for the nice samples. A pretty low ABV bottling and it suffers a bit because of that in my mind. The nose is floral with light roasted wood, diesel, tar, rubber, earthy, spice and dried fruit. The palate is light and oily with light rubber, tar, orange, smoke and chocolate. The finish is medium long with wood, orange, chocolate, licorice and smoke.

Review by Adrien B

Adrien B
Mar 2024342 reviewsFrance
8.3/10

Nose a mixture of overripe fruit and smoky, waxed parquet garage grease. Seems reduced and erased. More powerful on the palate than the nose would suggest. Defends itself very well despite its low 46%. The finish is not very long. A weak nose but a very cool palate despite the reducibility.

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11 bottles logged by 10 collectors.

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9% opened, 0 emptied.

10 sealed 1 open 0 emptied

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

Avg. community purchase price 182 €.

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11 purchased · 8 tasted · as of

Details about Berry Bros & Rudd Caroni Trinidad Rum HTR 1997

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Berry Bros & Rudd, at 46%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
Raw materialMolasses
ABV46%
Age19 years
Vintage1997
MarkHTR
Volume70cl
Cask #63

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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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