For 30 years now, the Drouin house has been distributed in Italy by Velier , the largest Italian spirits specialist. From these years of collaboration a sincere friendship was born between Luca Gargano, Christian and Guillaume Drouin .
In 2004, Luca discovered Caroni in Trinidad and Tobago, during one of his trips to the Caribbean, the forgotten stocks of a large state distillery founded in 1918 and closed in 2003. Caroni rums are among the most original in the world, heavy rums marked by notes of tapenade, pencil lead, petroleum or even leather.
In 2020, Guillaume Drouin imagined a new challenge as exciting as it was demanding for Christian Drouin's Experimental range and asked Luca if he could find him some emptied barrels of these rums. Six barrels of Caroni 1996 were soon housed in the Daniel Flambard cellar in Pont l'Evêque and filled with a 17-year-old Pays d'Auge Calvados.
“We had to find a calvados that was powerful and structured enough to support the aromatics of these old Caroni barrels. I usually push the reductions of our calvados quite far to find the best degrees of balance, but for this Caroni Angels , it seemed clear that the chosen calvados had to be maintained at a higher degree. After maturing for 8 months in these barrels, the balance seemed to me to have been achieved and Caroni Angels was bottled at 48.8% vol. ”
Tasting note:
On the nose, aromas of roasted apple and dried apricot blend with notes of leather, petroleum, and brown sugar. The palate maintains the liveliness and freshness of Calvados on the attack before revealing its fullness, richness, and length. Notes of toast, smoke, and baked apple intertwine on the finish.
Caroni Angels is a limited edition of # 1506 bottles only.
