Caroni 24 Year Old 1998 SMWS Single Bourbon Barrel R13.5 Fragility, Ephemerality & Impermanence Trinidadian Rum (2022) 70cl

Caroni 24 Year Old 1998 SMWS Single Bourbon Barrel R13.5 Fragility, Ephemerality & Impermanence Trinidadian Rum (2022) 70cl

1 of 230 bottles produced from a single 1st Fill bourbon barrel

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society was founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by Phillip 'Pip' Hills who, while travelling around Scotland in the 1970s, fell in love with whiskies drawn straight from the cask. After he expanded his syndicate the Society was purchased by Glenmorangie PLC in 2004. In 2015, the Society was sold back to private investors. In June 2021, the private owners floated the holding company The Artisanal Spirits Company plc on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

It has a unique code system where the first number refers to the distillery and the second refers to the cask from which the bottle comes. SMWS also offers the largest range of distilleries of any independent bottler. These curiously named drams really do have something for every whisky lover!

TASTING NOTES

We all mentioned cherries on the nose neat, boozy chocolate coated cherries, black ‘mountain cherry' liqueur as well as an aviation cocktail which led us all to fly high. On the palate the descriptors were not as unison and ranged from lighter fuel, marker pens and oiled leather, to pear drops and vanilla essence and finally coco beans and nutmeg in hessian sacks. Water added rough farmhouse cider, melted candles, Turkish delight and cod liver oil on the nose while to taste we flew again, in fact to the city of Zadar on Croatia's Dalmatian coast. There we enjoyed a cocktail of the same name consisting of Maraschino liqueur, amarena premium syrup and rum garnished with a maraska candied cherry.

About Caroni

61.7% ABV

70cl