CARONI 22 Year Old Tortuga No.1 Full Proof Heavy Trinidad Rum 1998
- SKU:
- 3497864
- UPC:
- 2310058495962
Caroni is the Karuizawa of the rum world. Trinidad was once home to over fifty distilleries now only Angostura remains. Established in 1918 Caroni was famed for supplying the British Navy with its full-bodied and full-throttle rums made using its own Trinidadian sugar cane. However it was sadly closed in 2002 and then demolished. The heavy rums that were saved are now top of the bucket list for collectors. Now only available in extremely limited quantities each expression of Caroni is a piece of history.
Of the few precious casks of liquid that do remain the most popular are those that contain “HTR” or Heavy Type/Trinidad Rum a particularly pungent powerful style of rum that was produced at Caroni and often used in tiny amounts to add weight and heft to blended rums. Rarely seen in their raw form while the distillery was operational they are only now being recognised as some of the most extraordinary rums ever produced.
The Tortuga No.1 is a bottling of just this type of rum. It was bottled by a luxury producer called East Asia Whisky Company and it’s their first rum release. It was distilled in 1998 and bottled in 2020 at 22 years of age. The only problem was that cask
SKU No.: 3497864
Style No.: 895206
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 66.1%
Volume: 700ml
Caroni is the Karuizawa of the rum world. Trinidad was once home to over fifty distilleries now only Angostura remains. Established in 1918 Caroni was famed for supplying the British Navy with its full-bodied and full-throttle rums made using its own Trinidadian sugar cane. However it was sadly closed in 2002 and then demolished. The heavy rums that were saved are now top of the bucket list for collectors. Now only available in extremely limited quantities each expression of Caroni is a piece of history.
Of the few precious casks of liquid that do remain the most popular are those that contain “HTR” or Heavy Type/Trinidad Rum a particularly pungent powerful style of rum that was produced at Caroni and often used in tiny amounts to add weight and heft to blended rums. Rarely seen in their raw form while the distillery was operational they are only now being recognised as some of the most extraordinary rums ever produced.
The Tortuga No.1 is a bottling of just this type of rum. It was bottled by a luxury producer called East Asia Whisky Company and it’s their first rum release. It was distilled in 1998 and bottled in 2020 at 22 years of age. The only problem was that cask
SKU No.: 3497864
Style No.: 895206