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CDI Ten Cane Trinidad (Ping 15) 2009
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One reviewer spends hours on a single dram of this, and you get why. Raspberry and red fruit lead, wrapped in loads of cask, sandalwood, cinnamon and baking spice, with a dry, faintly bitter edge that keeps it serious. At 61.7% it hits hard neat — give it 15 minutes and a few drops of water and the fruit and spice unfold. Not an easy sipper, and that's the point.
The community says- Raspberry & spice
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- But: Hot neat
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How does CDI Ten Cane Trinidad (Ping 15) 2009 taste?
Summarized by AI from 27 community reviews.
Spicy, dry Trinidad cask-strength sipper Owners rate it uniformly high — a complex, spicy Trinidad sipper from a closed distillery. The dry bitterness that some love is the one thing a couple of tasters would trim.
experienced sippers who like dry, spicy cask strength
anyone wanting sweet, easy, low-proof rum
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by mto75
finally the highly praised Ping 15 in the glass (many thanks to Eugen!). The red fruits are there, but not as intense as in the 2008s, but very round and rather sweet towards raspberries / blackberries and cream candy. After some standing time, I also imagine Fanta / orange soda. Toasted barrel, caramel and mocha on the palate. The Ping 15 knows how to please, just by its balance!
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This one has to be rested for at least 15 minutes to release its full potential. A masterpiece from the now closed Ten Cane Destillery. The wonderful nose is a perfect match to the palate and out of this world. I wonder why this destillery closed because they know how to make rum..... Darn..... I'd say the price is extremely low compared to the quality of this rum.
Review by Lukas Jäger
Big surprise! Apart from Caroni and the RA TDL, probably the best rum from Trinidad I've tried so far! Enormous amount of spice and wood deliver an exciting bitter note, accompanied by dried fruits. The finish leaves a dry and bitter but pleasant impression. Not an easy sipper, but a great bottling from CDI! Unique, I like that!
Review by Frank
Wow, the alcohol is quite strong at the start, but then it becomes very fruity. Grape and red as well as fragrant tropical fruits, dried apricot and citrus marmalade. Violets. Bitter sweetness of maple syrup and caramelized sugar. Also spicy-woody. I really like the nose. Intensely fruity-spicy on the palate. Again grape, clearly raspberry and a bit of slightly bitter citrus peel. Also again bitter-sweet like maple syrup. Added is something green, grassy, maybe a bit olive. Great flavor profile. Like it.
Review by Johannes
Amazingly good Ten Cane! Nice complexity with mint, strawberry, wood.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
As expected, it adds a good bit to the drinking strength, but not as much as I would have expected.raspberry, sandalwood, cinnamon, rose, raisin, clove, maple syrup and lots of barrel and wood on the nose.On the palate, the raspberry continues, plus furry mango, lots of barrel, lots of cinnamon, lots of baking spice, some rose and in the finish neat tannins and it becomes discreetly astringent. at the end, the mango and rose comes through again nicely. tasty but not perfect!
Review by Wernie
Tasty drop with a long spicy finish.👍🏻
Review by Snorre Brouer
Exceptional rum, which is a much try, if you like other Ten Cane bottlings - this one is by far the best there is, and considering the secondary market price for the Wild Series Ten Cane bottling, this is a steal. Very complex and well integrated alcohol with a mild burning on the tongue. When I pour a dram of this, I can use hours to consume it, because it's such an interesting rum to "explore" and see how it evolves. There is slightly bitternes over it, which I dislike and therefore it isn't a 90+ rum for me.
Review by FireChief
Nose: Very full aroma. Rich in barrel and alcohol. Very deep wood notes; oak, camphor wood, and teak wood. Dried tropical fruits. A bit medicinal, a bit “funk,” and a solid base of sugarcane, eucalyptus, and menthol. Taste: An explosion of flavor. A rum that breaks the boundaries of what good rum is. Everything comes together in a higher unity; alcohol, barrel, cane juice, color, aftertaste, etc. The strongest impressions are a distinctive bitterness, which quickly turns into sweetness, alcohol that is marked but well integrated, dried tropical fruit, oak barrel, natural sweetness from the sugarcane, tanned leather, spices, “funk,” and menthol. Aftertaste: Medium-long and very pleasant aftertaste. During the five minutes the aftertaste lasts, the rum slowly but surely decomposes; starting with a fairly present alcohol, which is replaced by notes of oak and cognac, well aware that the rum was aged in a bourbon barrel. Finally, space is given to floral notes. It all ends with a faint taste of sweet licorice. I would say you should aim to get Ten Cane reopened rather than sending people to the moon again!
Review by Adde
This rum really need a someone water and it will open up!
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24 bottles logged by 21 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
16% opened, 3 emptied.
What did the community pay for CDI Ten Cane Trinidad (Ping 15) 2009?
Community paid 96–217 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 158 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
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Details about CDI Ten Cane Trinidad (Ping 15) 2009
A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Compagnie des Indes, at 61.7%.
About the Ten Cane distillery
The Ten Cane distillery is located in Trinidad. Rums from Ten Cane have been reviewed 1,037 times with an average of 8.3/10.
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