Isla del Ron Caroni 1989
Highly praised as a clean, approachable Caroni with well-integrated alcohol, light wood and clear sherry influence, delivering dark chocolate, dried fruit and minty notes while staying very drinkable.
Caroni fans who enjoy a cleaner, sherry-leaning profile and want an easy-sipping, well-aged cask-strength Trinidad rum rather than an all-out tar-and-rubber funk monster.
Details about this rum
Live auctions
This rum is currently being offered by one of our verified auction house partners. RumX helps you discover and bid on rare rums.
How does this rum taste?
Clean, easy-sipping Caroni with sherry twist
If you like the idea of Caroni but find many too dirty or aggressive, this bottling gives you the distillery character in a cleaner, sherry-polished, very drinkable style.
Those chasing heavy, dirty Caroni power, or drinkers expecting maximal intensity and thick mouthfeel from a 30-year cask-strength bottling at this price level.
Community purchases
The RumX community has already added 18 bottles to their collections:
Digitize your rum collection and get exciting insights into the market value of your collection or individual bottles:
You may also enjoy
The identification of similar rums is based on the tasting notes of the community and the key data of the rum.
About the Caroni distillery
The Caroni distillery is located in Trinidad. Rums from Caroni have been reviewed 9,770 times with an average of 8.8/10.
By rum lovers, for rum lovers
I'm Oliver – together with Jakob, Robert, and Lukas, we started RumX in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.
What began as a digital tasting diary is now the world's most comprehensive platform for rum fans: over 25,000 bottlings, 270,000+ independent reviews, and an active community with 50,000 members. We combine the collective intelligence of our community with an integrated marketplace, allowing you to shop securely and manage your collection directly from the app.
The goal? To offer you, the rum connoisseur, a place where you can choose with confidence—without paperwork, detours, or expert jargon.
As seen in
Get the most out of RumX
Do you want to learn more about this rum, track the market value of your bottles, and share your rum with like-minded people? Download the RumX app for free now and discover the whole RumX universe!
Relatively clean for a Caroni. Very easy to drink. Nice malty aromas. Intense, full flavor. Could have been a bit more full-bodied for the price, but which Caroni is still cheap these days? Definitely an experience.
Relatively light and relaxed "easy sipping" caroni. Alcohol well integrated and unusually little woody and tasty for the age, sherry finish is definitely very concise but not too dominant.
Strange Caroni. Tastes like aged neutral alcohol with a sherry finish. Somehow it has nothing to do with Caroni. I would be very interested in the story behind this vintage...
This sample is a bit like a trip to the city. You're super lucky to score that Caroni girl that all the boys want. You bring her home and hope she's wild in bed, only to be disappointed because she's not. It's the same with this one, it tastes good but there's not much wildness about it. It's more the Caroni name that's wild.