Caroni 1997 24 Years Single Cask No. 887 Column Still Full Proof Traditional Trinidad Rum 57.9% Vol. - limited and rare bottling of a wonderful Full Proof Single Cask Rum from the closed cult distillery Caroni!
A rare and magnificent vintage 1997 24 year old Caroni Column Still Full Proof Single Cask Traditional Trinidad Rum from the independent bottler Valinch and Mallet from The Spirit of Art limited single cask rum series, best known among connoisseurs. This fine and exclusive Caroni Full Proof Premium Single Cask Trinidad Rum was distilled in 1997, matured for 24 years in an oak cask with the cask no. 887, before it was bottled in the year 2022 without added sugar or colouring in a limited edition of only 245 individually numbered bottles at full proof 57.9% vol.
The exceptional Caroni Traditional Full Proof Trinidad Rum was distilled using the Column Still method, received tropical aging for 11 years and continental aging for a further 13 years before it was bottled by Valinch and Mallet in the years 2022 with a specially designed artist s label by the Italian artist Laura Omacini in a limited edition. Laura Omacini earned a Master s degree in the department of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Winner of an Erasmus scholarship, she spent a semester at the École Européenne Supérieure d Art de Bretagne in Rennes, France, She loves and works in Venice and is currently a scholarship holder at the prestigious Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa.
Established in 1923 on the site of the sugar factory for which it was named, Caroni was a key ingredient of British Navy rations, where it s famous high ester Heavy rums help to make up the signature flavour. Sadly, with the decline of the Trinidadian sugar industry, the Islands distillers became more and more dependent upon imported molasses, making distilling less and less economical. The writing then, was already on the wall when in 2001 the Trinidadian government sold a 49% share in the holding company to Angostura. The Caroni distillery was closed in the year 2002 and a Behemoth of flavour was lost to the world.
An exclusive expression from the Caroni distillery and a wonderful Full Proof Single Cask Trinidad Rum for connoisseurs, the discerning rum collector and lover of fine old rums - a real piece of rum history from the closed distillery Caroni, which is now an absolute rarity!
- Typ: Full Proof Traditional Trinidad Single Cask Rum - Independent bottling
- District: Trinidad
- Vintage: 1998
- Age: 24 years old
- Year bottled: 2022
- Cask No.: 887
- Destillation: 100% Column Still Distillation
- Alcohol ABV% 57.9 - Full Proof
- Bottling Series: Vintage 1997 The Spirit of Art Limited Single Cask Edition - Release 2022
- Label: Artist label by Laura Omacini
- Tropical Aging: 11 years
- Continental Aging: 13 years
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- not coloured / no added sugar
- Packaging original boxed (box with traces, cracked on top, bumped)
- Producer/Importer: Valinch and Mallet Ltd., WC2A 2JR, London, UK
- Country of Origin: Isle of Trinidad
- limited, one of onle 245 bottles - unique bottling and very rare collector s rum!
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