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Velier Royal Navy
Sip this neat and give it an hour to open. What you get is dirty Caroni up front — diesel, tar, rubber, hot asphalt — folded into ripe banana and pineapple funk from the Jamaican side and a dark, molasses-sweet Demerara richness underneath. Members call it the reference navy blend, three terroirs you can pick out one by one. Cask strength but the alcohol reads well-integrated.
The community says- Dirty Caroni tar
- Three terroirs balanced
- Runs hot
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How does Velier Royal Navy taste?
Aggregated from 324 community reviews.
Dirty Caroni-led navy blend, deep and complex Loved as a benchmark navy blend, with dirty Caroni tar and rubber leading. A few taste it against the Tiger Shark and lean the other way; it can run hot and bitter.
Caroni fans who love dirty diesel-and-rubber notes
Beginners or anyone wanting a soft, sweet sipper
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What does the community say?
6% rate it between 6 and 8. 19 selected write-ups from 324 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
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Review by Mirco
A very successful blend with clearly recognizable proportions of the three countries of origin. The typical Caroni notes of tar and rubber meet the dark, heavy sweetness of a Demerara. Added to this is the fruity estery freshness of Hampden, which lightens up the whole. Despite the variety, the interplay is harmonious and exciting.
Review by Oliver
Excellent blend with a great caroni base! My navy reference.
Review by Clément Boetto🤤🇫🇷
an exceptional blend 🤤
Review by cigares
Velier's Navy Rum. I had high expectations. It's true that the blend is very successful. First there's the Caroni with its empyreumatic machine-shop notes, then the funky Jamaican fruitiness and finally the Demerara, which rounds things out with its roundness and old leather. The same thing in the same order on the palate. But it leaves me wanting more, perhaps a little too hot? Tastes clash a little. I'm not a fan, but I recognize all its qualities, and there are many of them, especially in direct comparison with the already very good Black Tot 2020. Another tasting and more oxidation, it's getting better and better and its rating is rising. Bottle almost empty, this rum is very beautiful. Jamaica takes over with oxidation. Caroni is still present on the nose and a little on the palate.
Review by Vincent D
Rather Jamaican on the nose. Sweet fruit and glue. Wood, esters. You can come back to it over and over again and smell different things. A pleasant dirty side. On the palate, it explodes! It's woody, sweet, full of fruit and varnish. Glue. A burning sensation. How pleasant! It's warm and coats the palate. The finish is heavier. Less fruity. Bitterness, a hint of tar. Damn, that's good. Keeps its reputation! Next tastings: What a kick! I could smell it for hours.
Review by Jakob
Counts among the best blends known to me at all. A Navy representative at the absolute top level with exclusively tropically matured rums in the ensemble.
Review by Galli33
WoW! That‘s an amazing blend! In the nose you‘ll find sweetness and ester with some wood, a lot of spice and some caroni like Tat notes. Very harmonious rum. The alcohol is integrated very well(for a blend of this kind). I find it a bit better than the royal navy tiger shark. Lovely smell and taste of high quality oak barrel Nose: Ester, glue, tar, varnish, complex, spicy, oak, vanilla, roasted, tobacco, caramelized, cream toffee, sweet, trop fruits, overripe fruits, banana, dried fruits Mouth: complex, dry, intense, strong, full bodied, woody(oak), spicy, vanilla, roasted, smoky, black tea, tobacco, sweet, burnt sugar, caramelized, dried fruits, prunes Finish: long, dry, delicious, intense, black tea, dried fruits, prunes, vanilla, woody(oak), smoky, roasted, hazelnuts
Review by Thunderbird
An excellent navy rum of the heavy, intensely aromatic kind... the Caroni note really comes through here... Gumi and tar are clearly perceptible on the nose as well as on the palate. But esters, tropical fruits, wood and spices are not neglected either... the whole thing is extraordinarily complex....I like it very much Edit: In the glass again today and it needs to be raised by 0.2
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
An exceptional blend that really stole the show from the previously tasted Skeldons 1997, but then surprisingly was even topped by one of the four "mundane" Caronis 1997 from the 1423 tasting box, more precisely the Caroni from Cask #53. Nevertheless, this navy blend simply sets standards in its class, a successful rum in every respect without fault. Thank you, Toni, for sacrificing a bottle from your cellar for this pleasure.
Review by Tschusikowsky
Far less complex than the Navy Shark, but with a wonderful Caroni note. Not so heavy, nice blend, well integrated alcohol. Water brings out even more the fruity components.
Review by Giorgio Garotti
In my opinion the most successful blend to come out of Velier! You can taste all the flavors of the various distilleries that make it up and none overpowers the other but they blend in a perfectly balanced way!
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Very exciting baby blend! In a direct comparison, however, the Tiger shark wins for me by 0.1 points, as I find it rounder, more palatable, fruitier and even more complex! Nevertheless, a really tasty caroni navy blend that is still available at a good price.
Review by Stefan L
Second tasting and I like it a lot, really good 😋 - now third and still awesome… - Forth tasting… yummy… 240730: First tasting after I got my own bottle of Tiger shark and they are different but both really good.
Review by Timo Groeger
Wow, a really great blend, I wouldn't have thought. The nose was immediately convincing. Leather, wood and somehow dirty. Then on the palate, nice caroni notes. Rubber and tar stand out. Very complex and also a little woody. Strong rum.
Review by Beach-and-Rum 🏖️🌴
Im Direktvergleich nochmal eine Spur runder und für mich besser als der Tiger Shark. Der Caroni kommt schön durch. Toller Blend. Bei der aktuellen Preissteigerung würde ich mir allerdings eher den Tiger Shark zulegen.
Review by TheRhumhoe
A Royal Navy that represents the best of British rum. The nose is mostly Jamaican funk and Guyana's greediness with an avalanche of fruits (tropical fruits, yellow fruits, citrus) all followed by Caroni's dirty, smoky and petroliferous side in ambush. On the palate, Trinidad comes through with plenty of woody, smoky, spicy and hydrocarbon aromas. The floral and fruity notes are more in the background. It is intense, very cleaving but also very pleasant. The finish is persistent, very long on empyreumatic aromas, accompanied by a touch of bitterness with dark chocolate and some dried fruits. A powerful rum, somewhat unstable but whose quality is undeniable.
Review by Thomas Wille
Excellent blend. Has a bit of everything . Top !!!
Review by Michael Schou
Rate 8.9 Have tasted it many times over the years. Only rated but never made a review. 08-08-2025 - Rate 9.1 We spilt a bottle in the Club and it’s now time to taste and rate again. Remember this at the best navy rum ever. Perhaps Black Tot LC is slightly bettet. Notes of tropical fruit, wood, spices, ester and tar. Palate is wood, rubber, tar and spices. Long finish with rubber, tar and wood. 05-09-2025 - Rate 9.1 12-09-2025 - Rate 9.1 10-10-2025 - Rats 9.0 04-02-2026 - Rate 9.0 27-03-2026 - Rate 9.1 02-05-2026 - Rate 9.0
Review by LukaŽiga
8,5:On the nose, the first note we scent is varnish, well mixed with wood, tar and dirt.Caroni Spiel.We quickly settle with nicer notes, as the wood is roasted with nuts, the molasses is dark and vegetal, citrus neutralizes dirty notes a bit as we are hit with a rubber. Well, airing the rum is a solution as it becomes brighter, shiny with tempting overripe tropical and red fruits, lots of esters, vegetal notes like tea, tobacco, later some raisins, dried figs, some leather, burnt sugar and spice.Nice complexity. 9:On the palate, the attack is much more pleasant than on our first nose, with rubber, overripe tropical, dried fruits, the wood is dry and spicy, the molasses a bit bitter.The second attack is dirty and tarry, but delicious as it is paired with maple, honey sweetness, toasted wood, candied fruits.Very syrupy, delicious yellow fruits appear, paired with charred wood and toffee.We are really enjoying the complexity of this rum...With rising vegetal notes as herbs, tobacco, eucalyptus, the sweetness abates a bit... 8,6:The finish is again more dirty-Caroni like, a bit bitter, with tar, molasses, luckily roasted wood with toffee and dried fruits clear and improve the finish a lot...
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Details about Velier Royal Navy
A Navy Rum from Multiple countries, bottled by Velier, at 57,18%.
Community purchases
943 bottles logged by 570 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
18% opened, 61 emptied and repurchased.
What does Velier Royal Navy cost?
Community paid 120–231 €.
Current best price: 239.00 € – above the typical community range.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
+15 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.
943 purchased · 339 tasted · 208 wishlist · as of
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