Classic rum

Bristol Spirits Caroni 1997

Bristol Spirits Caroni 1997 is back! This is a well-known rum from Bristol Spirits! But notice this Caorni is one year older than the earlier Caroni rum from Bristol Spirits. Caroni 1997 is distilled at the Caroni Distillery in Trinidad on their great column still. This is a classic example of Caroni’s ’HTR’ Heavy Type Rum. Do you want to see other rum from Caroni Distillery? Click here

Country of origin trinidad & tabago

From Caroni Distillery

Bristol Spirits is produced by the rum legend, John Barrett, who has a long history in the rum world. This is classic rum, and all bottles are dated with a vintage year.
A well-known rum from Bristol Spirits is back — Caroni 1997! But notice this Caorni is bottled in 2017 and therefore one year older than the earlier Caroni rum from Bristol Spirits, which was bottled in 2016.

Tasting notes:
This rum was distilled at the Caroni Distillery in Trinidad on their great column still, it is a classic example of their ’HTR’ Heavy Type Rum. This small batch bottling from a 1997 distillation, has been bottled at cask
strength showing all the quality and depth of flavour for which this distillery was famours for. With fruit and wood on the palate, the high spirit carries you to a long finish.

Still Column
Alcohol 61,5%
Volume 0.7L
Age 20 years classic rum
Produced by Bristol Spirits
Product type
Chill-filtered
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About the producer

Bristol Spirits

The mission of Bristol Spirits is to seek interesting rum. With careful production and long maturation, the true quality and style can be seen from the many varied rums that they select and bottle for the enjoyment of rum lovers the world over. It is a true experience to explore the range of Bristol Spirits products. They are classic and natural and often only rough filtered.

Meet John Barrett
John Barrett is the managing director of Bristol Spirits. In many generations, his family has worked in the vine and spirits industry. John started by importing port wine to the UK and later he continued with cognac, where he shipped the cognac to UK to let it mature there. In the 1800s one found out that the cold and more humid climate in UK has a positive influence at the maturation process.
After some time, John began trading rum and whisky. John (re)discovered some of the small rom producers at the Caribbean Islands and he began buying single casks and imported them to his own cellar in Wickwar outside of Bristol. Today he has new and bigger cellars in Liverpool where he mature his rum.
When John receives his rum he finds the right barrel to mature the rum in. He only bottles small amounts from different producers – therefore his products are not mixed of thousands of casks from different producers.

More about Bristol Spirits
Bristol Spirits is classic rum. It is single vintage. By that means that Bristol Spirits does for rum what malt whisky has done for Scotch – premium, small batch. Every bottle is dated with vintage year. If it says 1998 that means that every content in the bottle is distilled in 1998. It is important to Bristol Spirits to tell in which year the rum is distilled and where in the world plus which distillery it is from.
It is a basic principle that Bristol Spirits only bottle small lots of rum about three or four casks. They seek small quantities, sometimes only single barrels from a single distillery or a single estate or even a single still to show rum in its true unblended form. Therefore, the list of Bristol products continually changing. When Bristol Spirits became more and more widely known they began to experiment with finishing the ageing in different casks such as new French oak, ex-Bourbon white oak and casks that had previously held Port and Madeira.

About the brand

Bristol Spirits

The mission of Bristol Spirits is to seek interesting rum. With careful production and long maturation, the true quality and style can be seen from the many varied rums that they select and bottle for the enjoyment of rum lovers the world over. It is a true experience to explore the range of Bristol Spirits products. They are classic and natural – often their rums are only rough filtered.