Velier royal navy Very old rum Velier Royal Navy was born out of a desire to recreate the Royal Navy blend, but with the Velier approach, so the best possible. Royal Navy were blends of young rums from the various British Caribbean colonies, then darkened with a generous addition of caramel. Velier Royal Navy, on the other hand, is a blend of the oldest rums from Trinidad (to be exact, Caroni aged in the tropics for a minimum of 20 years), Guyanese rums aged in Europe for more than 15 years and a blend of Jamaican rums aged in the tropics for more than 12 years. The final average ageing is 17.42 years, the master blender was Luca Gargano, who personally created the blend. To be consumed neat: there is no better way to appreciate such a complex yet extremely pleasant drinking rum. A curiosity: the two characters portrayed in the label's coat of arms are Amleto Mori and Sergio Storti, two of Veiler's most historic collaborators, present in its offices since the early years of Luca Gragano's management and still working today. This is how Velier pays tribute to them: by portraying them as 'good' pirates, as opposed to the 'bad' pirates who drank rum on the sailing ships of the British coloniser