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Caroni 1998 100% Trinidad Rum 17 Year Old
This is one of four releases in the 100% Trinidad Rum series from a Velier which offered larger batch and more widely available Caroni rums to consumers. It is a wide vatting of 1998 vintage casks of its HTR style rum, distilled on the Indian-made mash column still. It was bottled in Scotland at Benriach distillery in 2015.
Distillery
Distillery status
Closed
Age
17 year old
Vintage
1998
Production Type
Traditional rum
Still
Column still
Ageing
Tropical
Sweetened
No
Region
Trinidad and Tobago
Brand
Bottle count
9,232
Base
Molasses
Series
Distillery
Caroni
A historic rum distillery that was once owned by British sugar merchant, Tate & Lyle, before being nationalised by the Trinidadian government in the 1970s. It eventually closed in 2003 and the last of the distillery's stock and its brand name were acquired by Italian distributor, Velier.
Founded
1918
Production type
Traditional rum
Brand
Caroni
A historic rum distillery that was once owned by British sugar merchant, Tate & Lyle, before being nationalised by the Trinidadian government in the 1970s. It eventually closed in 2003 and the last of the distillery's stock and its brand name were acquired by Italian distributor, Velier.
Founded
1918
Production type
Traditional rum
Company
Velier
An Italian importer and distributor founded in Genoa in 1947. Under the ownership of Luca Gargano since 1986, it has become one of the most important companies in the world rum. It represents a huge array of brands in Europe as well as marketing a number of its own.
Founded
1947
Company type
Distributor,
Importer,
Independent Bottler
Series
Caroni 100% Trinidad Rum
A quartet of Caroni bottlings from Velier SpA, produced outside of and in greater quantities than its famous numbered series of bottlings. Releases between 2012 and 2017, there are four age statements in the series (12-, 15-, 17- and 21-year-old) as well as a rare magnum sized bottling from 2015.
Dates of production
2012-2017
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