This heavy rum comes from the now closed Caroni distillery (Trinidad & Tobago).
Bottled in 2019 by English bottler Bristol Spirits, it was distilled in 1997 in columns.
It was bottled in "Cask Strength", i.e. without reduction once extracted from the cask.
Nico's tasting notes
On the nose, yellow fruit and orchard freshness coexist with a garage of smoky, oily and greasy smells. Yet these two worlds are not dissociated. They harmonize and harmonize smoothly.
Aeration allows both sides of the rum to be integrated, while leaning a little more to the side of old woody toast and tar confit. The fruit has pitted, skinned and dried around it, prune-like. A hint of heavy rum hangs over the glass, as if to remind us of this product's tropical origins, with ripe exotic fruit enhanced by a very slight hint of olive in brine.
On the palate, the texture of this Caroni is relatively light, which is surprising at first. What's not surprising, however, is the concentration so unique to this type of rum, made up of stone fruits, almonds, smoke, nuts, the whole list of endless complexity.
The finish is a little more woody and tannic, but not lacking in freshness, with a touch of menthol that makes the whole very digestible and greedy.
"Only Caroni can offer such a profile, complex and fruity, gourmand and tarry..."
In addition to this note, you can consult the one we made for this other bottling from the same vintage, but from another barrel, “released” three years earlier: Bristol Caroni 19 years old 1997-2016 Cask Strength 61.5°
Arnaud Faverjon
A very good Caroni with a marked but very appreciable character.