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95984FFF-3BF5-4374-B56B-10FE30EEDBECTrinidad Caroni Bristol Classic Rum
Bristol Caroni 1989 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 19 years · 43%

Bristol Caroni 1989

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How does Bristol Caroni 1989 taste?

Aggregated from 7 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

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

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Community voices

What does the community say?

8.3/10 Very good

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

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Review by Jakob

Jakob
Apr 20251,666 reviewsSwitzerland
8.2/10

19 Jahre tropische Lagerung machen sich in der Nase bemerkbar, schöne aromatische Tiefe und klassiche HTR-Noten. Am Gaumen dann wie zu erwarten etwas schwach auf der Brust. Insgesamt aber tolle Qualität.

Review by Johannes

Johannes
Apr 20253,212 reviewsGermany
8.2/10

Nase erstaunlich gut, tropisch, am Gaumen etwas dünn, aber geht eher in Richtung 96er Jahrgang, komplett tropisch.

Expert reviews

2 critics scored it, averaging 8.4/10. Reviews from RumX's blog partners, independent experts who have tasted, evaluated, and described this rum.

Expert review by The Dunder Hut

This one clearly has LTR in it. But it is well made.

Community shelf

6 bottles logged by 6 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

16% opened, 0 emptied.

5 sealed 1 open 0 emptied

What did the community pay for Bristol Caroni 1989?

Avg. community purchase price 405 €.

What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.

6 purchased · 8 tasted · 8 wishlist · as of

Details about Bristol Caroni 1989

A rum from Trinidad, bottled by Bristol Classic Rum, at 43%.

DistilleryCaroni
CountryTrinidad
Raw materialMolasses
ABV43%
Age19 years
Vintage1989
Limited editionYes
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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Rating guide

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9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good your rum Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
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.