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 Trinidad 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.
The Caroni distillery is said to have been founded in 1918, but there are several historical references to distillation having taken place there earlier in the 20th century. In 1936, it became part of the Tate and Lyle company, which used it as a base for expanding its eventually substantial sugar operations in Trinidad. Caroni was an important part of the British Navy s rations, where its famous high-proof heavy rums provided the signature flavour. With the decline of the Trinidadian sugar industry, Tate and Lyle sold a 51% majority stake to the government in 1970 before the company was fully nationalised in 1975. Although the newly formed Caroni (1975) Ltd. was able to supply itself with molasses, it continued to make losses for the next 25 years until the government attempted to minimise its stake by selling 49% of its shares, just enough to retain control. Angostura was the preferred bidder, but a dispute over the value of Caroni s stock cancelled the deal and and Caroni was finally closed in 2003 and a true giant 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!
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- Typ: Full Proof Traditional Trinidad Single Cask Rum - Independent bottling
- District: Trinidad
- Vintage: 1998
- Age: 24 years old
- Year bottled: 2022
- Fasstyp: Oak Cask / Cask Wood Type: Oak Cask
- 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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