Sold outIn short · Caroni (Trinidad), 22 years.
“A fruit-driven nose burst open with ripe apples, pineapple, mango and guava and bundles of molasses dusted with cinnamon and ginger.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS R13.2 is a single cask of Caroni, in Trinidad, 22 years old, bottled at 62.1%. Every Society bottle numbered R13.x is from Caroni.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
On the site of a Trinidad sugar factory, Caroni was established in 1923 and made heavy rum in pot and column stills, much of it for the Royal Navy's ration. As the sugar industry declined it was closed in 2002. In 2004, Luca Gargano of Velier found its warehouses still full of old casks, and the bottlings that followed made Caroni a cult. Lost.