Velier Caroni 3rd Employees Nita „Nitz“ Hogan 2000

Epic Velier Caroni Tasting 2023: Together with Paradise #5, this remains my favorite Caroni from the 2000 vintage. In direct comparison with significantly more menthol on the nose. On the palate with a powerful taste, great residual sweetness, woodiness and a pointed presence of the individual aromas. Absolute top class.

A wonderful Caroni! Pretty sure this is the first 2000 vintage I have tried and it didn't dissapoint. Very powerful, on the nose there's is tar, menthol and vanilla, on the palate, its wonderfully complex and dirty, tar, wood, oils, then some sweetness with cappuccino. Enjoyed this one!

Intense and complex nose. Very, very good! A tad too dry on the palate for a top rating.

What can I say or write? I am thrilled! For me, it combines the classic Caroni... lots of dirty aromas, something fresh, with menthol, mint, vanilla, fruit, some coffee and an endless finish, just delicious 🤤

Wonderful 2000 representative of the Velier Caronis.

Wow, great nose. Dirty Caroni and a full basket of fruit. Very complex, warm, the alcohol is well integrated, the long time in the tropics shows in perfect ripeness. You can sniff it for a long time. Very, very strong in the mouth. Lots of spice, especially pepper Medium-long finish. Spices, caramel. Great 2000 Caroni, I like it better than the Dicky.🤩

90 points. Outstanding Caroni from the 2000 vintage. All the flavours that I like in a good Caroni are present in the nose and on the palate: Vanilla, tar, menthol, tropical fruit with banana shining through, leather, burnt sugar. A delight with an outstanding and long finish.

A Caroni that I liked very much right away. My experience with the 2000 vintage was limited until now. What you get here, however, I like really good and I could hardly imagine that this goes much better. Very complex, very fruity, dirty and with a beautiful barrel maturity at the same time, which is also here for me virtually on the point. Should you ever really have a craving for junkyard flavor, I would personally wish for exactly that again.... Not too coarse, but also in no case too softened

Very very horny Caroni. Flavorful to the point, without too much to expect at once. Mouth-filling umami flavors stimulate salivation. Top.

... Caroni je destilerie z Trinidadu, produkujici v dobe sve nejvetsi slavy rum, ktery se pridaval v pomeru 1:10 do namornickeho blendu. Byl totiz moc vyrazny a divny nez aby byl prijemny na jazyku. V roce 2000 destilerka skoncila s produkci a byla uzavrena. Az v roce 2010 se objevili degustatori, kteri si rum oblibili prave pro jeho specialni chut. A zajem rostl. Caroni patri do kategorie rumu "you need to try before you die". Doporucuji, Caroni je opravdu unikatni rum.

Really tasty 2000 Caroni ... I've only tried a few Velier 2000s, but this is the most convincing. Dirty Caroni notes with tar, rubber and gunpowder in combination with round caramel/toffee and fruit (banana, mango, dried fruit) as well as nice wood and leather notes.

There were a few employes in the test today. Yunkoo, Buju, Nitz and Brigade. To sum up, they are all very tasty caronis. For me, only Brigade is the one that has lost out a little, the others are all very close together. My ranking today would be: 1st Yunkoo 2. Nitz 3. Buju 4. brigade

What a fantastic 2000 offering. Fresh and dirty rubber and menthol. A load of roast aromas with tar and a hint of mentholy vanilla. Some tar to finish this strong caroni and really wakes it place at an already strong year.

Der beste 2000 caroni, den ich kenne!

Fourth employee of the evening. The most interesting scent so far, mixing technical tar and glue vulnes with candied fruit, cappuccino and vanilla. On the palate it's a sweeter profile at first, but that goes immediately to a tart caroni refreshed with mint. The finish,long, warm, perfect. I'm blown away. Svincany caroni tasting 19.12.2024