Caroni Employees 6th Release 25 Y.O. 1996 Full Proof – “Employees United”

Caroni Employees 6th Release 25 Y.O. 1996 Full Proof – “Employees United”

Caroni Employees 6th Release 25 Y.O Full Proof Heavy – Employees United is the assembly of 4 barrels distilled in the single column of the Caroni Distillery and aged for 25 years in a tropical climate. The blend, bottled full proof, for a total of 754 bottles for the world, is made up of single barrels from 1996, selected during the Caroni Ceremony on 12 April 2019. Once chosen, the blend was transferred to stainless steel containers, where aging has stopped definitively, allowing to keep intact all the characteristics of the original Caroni aged in a tropical climate.

“Employees is the latest series of blends composed of a part of the last 140 barrels remaining from the original stock of the Caroni Distillery, found by Luca Gargano on that legendary 9 December 2004. It is a series born with the idea of ​​celebrating some of the Caroni employees, 15 to be exact, reunited thanks to the collaboration of Rudy Moore, liquidator of the bankruptcy of the Trinidad distillery, with whom Luca came into contact immediately after the discovery. All releases bear the name, nickname and photo of each one on the label dei Caroni Employees, taken by Fredi Marcarini, the late photographer of the images found on almost all the editions of Caroni selected by Luca Gargano. Fredi was with Luca on the day the barrels were found, and returned with him to Trinidad after 12 years , to immortalize all the employees, to whom the 15 blends are dedicated.

The 4 barrels that make up this edition were selected on 12 April 2019, on the occasion of the Caroni Ceremony, when 26 of the greatest Caroni enthusiasts in the world gathered in Cognac, together with Luca, for a unique event: when the last 140 barrels remaining of the Caroni stock found in 2004 were imported to Europe, where aging was stopped. Of the 140 barrels, 60 were chosen by 8 “” tasting gang “” to create blends of a few barrels, the liquids of which were placed in stainless steel vats to stop aging permanently, waiting to be bottled in the Employees series . The project is a real tribute to the history of the legendary Caroni Distillery. This release is the last, and is dedicated to Fredi Marcarini, Rudy Moore and all 15 employees, portrayed together in the photo. “