Velier Caroni Releases

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Velier Caroni releases 30-39 are numbered on the bottlings, with release 39 indicating it was ‘The Last’ one. There’s obviously been a lot more Velier Caroni releases than 39, so I’ve been curious which bottlings comprise of releases 1-29 as they don’t seem to be numbered on the bottles or boxes (as far as I know).

If I exclude the single cask releases, the magnum releases, the employees series, the hangar series and the paradise series, I’m left with exactly 39 bottlings:

  •   Caroni 1996 21yr Extra Strong Imperial Proof 57.18% (11722 bottles)

  •   Caroni 1998 15yr Extra Strong 104 Proof (12477 bottles)

  •   Caroni 1998 17yr Extra Strong 110 Proof (9232 bottles)

  •   Caroni 2000 12yr Extra Strong 100 Proof (23296 bottles)

  •   Caroni Navy Rum Extra Strong 90 Proof 51.4% Replica (13654 bottles)

  •   Caroni 1982 FPLTR 24yr 55.2%, Crushing Only (820 on the label, but 816 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1982 LTR 23yr 59.2% (1227 on the label, but 1164 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1989 FPLTR 17yr 64.2% (680 bottles)

  •   Caroni 1974 FPHTR 34yr 66.1% (bottles: 2000 on the label, but 1959 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1982 FPHTR 24yr 58.3% (4600 on the label, but 4596 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1982 HTR 23yr 62% (1360 on the label, but 966 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1983 FPHTR 25yr 55% (1540 on the label, but 1531 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1983 HTR 22yr 52% (20986 on the label, but 20048 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1984 FPHTR 22yr 54.6% (580 on the label, but 550 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1984 FPHTR 24yr 58.3% (440 on the label, but 421 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1985 FPHTR 21yr 58.8% (6600 on the label, but 6521 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1985 HTR 20yr 62% (1314 on the label, but 924 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1989 HTR 16yr 62% (1527 on the label, but 1464 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1992 FPHTR 18yr 61.2% (6253 on the label, but 3457 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1992 HTR 18yr 55% (16236 on the label, but 9253 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1994 FPHTR 17yr 62.3% (2293 on the label, but 2231 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1994 HPHTR 17yr 52% (7142 on the label, but 6434 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1985 BTR 15yr 49.5% (2263 on the label, but 2262 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1988 BTR 15yr 43% (5200 on the label, but 5169 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1991 BTR 19yr 55% (3976 on the label, but 2050 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1991 FPBTR 19yr 61.7% (1518 on the label, but 1098 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1993 BTR 17yr 44.4% (4279 on the label, but 1850 is correct)

  •   Caroni 1985 OLTR 15yr 43.4% (6700 on the label, but 6488 is correct)

  •   Caroni 2000 HPTR 17yr 55% (EU release: 582 bottles; US release: 2700 bottles)

  •   30th release: 1996, 17yr, white box, Band (1460 on the label, but 613 is correct)

  •   31st release: 1996, 17yr, white box, Sugarcane Field Workers Working (3910 on the label, but 1808 is correct)

  •   32nd release: 1998, 16yr, white box, Caroni Estate (2750 on the label, but 1280 is correct)

  •   33rd release: 1998, 16yr, white box, No Smoking (3850 on the label, but 1025 is correct)

  •   34th release: 1996, 20yr, white box, Heavy (3800 on the label, but 1466 is correct)

  •   35th release: 1996, 20yr, Trespassers (3038 on the label, but 1493 is correct)

  •   36th release: 1994, 23yr, HTR (yellow label) (6642 bottles) (6642 bottles)

  •   37th release: 1994, 23yr, HTR Guyana Stock (600 on the label, but 300 is correct)

  •   38th release: 1996, 23yr, Tasting Gang (5083 on the label, but 4668 is correct)

  •   39th release: 1996, 23yr, The Last (5522 on the label, but 5274 is correct)

Anyone have info if these are what are considered releases 1-39 and what bottlings correspond to each release number?

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