Royal Navy

an exceptional blend 🤤

Caroni at first nose, with the aeration comes the wood the tropical fruits the raisin the leather the tar the vanilla... I could sniff it for hours. The mouth continues on the same frame with tobacco and a touch of licorice at the end. All this is very complex! I find this mixture really exceptional

Tasted it at Stefano Caroni’s (Steffen Mayer) stand at SDR23. A top notch navy rum with a very good influence from Caroni in the flavor profile. Definitely want a bottle 😁

Wow, ein echt toller Blend, hätte ich nicht gedacht. Die Nase wusste gleich zu überzeugen. Leder, Holz und irgendwie dreckig. Am Gaumen dann auch schöne Caroni-Noten. Gummi und Teer sind hervorzuheben. Sehr komplex und auch etwas holzig. Starker Rum.

Excellent blend with a great caroni base! My navy reference.

WoW! That‘s an amazing blend! In the nose you‘ll find sweetness and ester with some wood, a lot of spice and some caroni like Tat notes. Very harmonious rum. The alcohol is integrated very well(for a blend of this kind). I find it a bit better than the royal navy tiger shark. Lovely smell and taste of high quality oak barrel Nose: Ester, glue, tar, varnish, complex, spicy, oak, vanilla, roasted, tobacco, caramelized, cream toffee, sweet, trop fruits, overripe fruits, banana, dried fruits Mouth: complex, dry, intense, strong, full bodied, woody(oak), spicy, vanilla, roasted, smoky, black tea, tobacco, sweet, burnt sugar, caramelized, dried fruits, prunes Finish: long, dry, delicious, intense, black tea, dried fruits, prunes, vanilla, woody(oak), smoky, roasted, hazelnuts

A Royal Navy that represents the best of British rum. The nose is mostly Jamaican funk and Guyana's greediness with an avalanche of fruits (tropical fruits, yellow fruits, citrus) all followed by Caroni's dirty, smoky and petroliferous side in ambush. On the palate, Trinidad comes through with plenty of woody, smoky, spicy and hydrocarbon aromas. The floral and fruity notes are more in the background. It is intense, very cleaving but also very pleasant. The finish is persistent, very long on empyreumatic aromas, accompanied by a touch of bitterness with dark chocolate and some dried fruits. A powerful rum, somewhat unstable but whose quality is undeniable.

Wow.... tried it for the last time 2 years ago and can't explain why I gave it so few points back then, Great blend! Caroni is also clearly present in the taste. Nice dirty note, but not too intrusive. Fortunately I bought a whole bottle the other day :-)

I have to admit that I haven’t had a better Navy Rum in my Glass (so far). It is complex and balanced at the same time. The Caroni is quite a central element and even when I am not that keen about Caroni overall, here it works like charm. Get your hands on a bottle while it’s still possible!

3 super rums from 3 countries, which would probably be convincing on their own, combined into a beautiful blend. The individual components are noticeable. The dirty notes of Caroni, the heavy sweetness of Demerara and the fruity esters of Hampden.

Velier's Navy Rum. I had high expectations. It's true that the blend is very successful. First there's the Caroni with its empyreumatic machine-shop notes, then the funky Jamaican fruitiness and finally the Demerara, which rounds things out with its roundness and old leather. The same thing in the same order on the palate. But it leaves me wanting more, perhaps a little too hot? Tastes clash a little. I'm not a fan, but I recognize all its qualities, and there are many of them, especially in direct comparison with the already very good Black Tot 2020. Another tasting and more oxidation, it's getting better and better and its rating is rising. Bottle almost empty, this rum is very beautiful. Jamaica takes over with oxidation. Caroni is still present on the nose and a little on the palate.

A mega good blend of very mature rums. Aromatically, the Guyana Rum prevails for me on the palate the most. Very dry.

Rather Jamaican on the nose. Sweet fruit and glue. Wood, esters. You can come back to it over and over again and smell different things. A pleasant dirty side. On the palate, it explodes! It's woody, sweet, full of fruit and varnish. Glue. A burning sensation. How pleasant! It's warm and coats the palate. The finish is heavier. Less fruity. Bitterness, a hint of tar. Damn, that's good. Keeps its reputation! Next tastings: What a kick! I could smell it for hours.

An exceptional blend that really stole the show from the previously tasted Skeldons 1997, but then surprisingly was even topped by one of the four "mundane" Caronis 1997 from the 1423 tasting box, more precisely the Caroni from Cask #53. Nevertheless, this navy blend simply sets standards in its class, a successful rum in every respect without fault. Thank you, Toni, for sacrificing a bottle from your cellar for this pleasure.

Far less complex than the Navy Shark, but with a wonderful Caroni note. Not so heavy, nice blend, well integrated alcohol. Water brings out even more the fruity components.