Rum is an integral aspect of Cuban culture, formed by the weather, geography, culture, and people of the nation. The Havana Club collection is the greatest embodiment of this historical legacy. The Havana Club rum, made by Maestros del Ron Cubano using classic Cuban rum producing processes, reflects the essence of Cuba, loved by Cantineros and rum enthusiasts throughout the globe to the beat of the finest Cuban music.
Official website: havana-club.com
Havana Club is a rum brand founded in Cuba during the year 1934. Initially manufactured in Cárdenas, Cuba, by the privately-owned José Arechabala S.A., the label was nationalized following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. In 1993, the French-owned Pernod Ricard and the Cuban government formed Corporación Cuba Ron, a 50:50 joint project. They started selling this form of Havana Club worldwide, except for the United States, because of the heavy embargo imposed by the US authorities.
After acquiring the genuine Arechabala household Havana Club recipe, Bacardi, yet another Cuban family that had fled Cuba after the Cuban revolt started making Havana Club Rum in 1994, a competitive product manufactured in Puerto Rico and marketed inside the United States.
Pernod Ricard's Havana Club is the world's fifth rum brand, with about 4 million containers sold between 2012–2013. It is available in more than 120 nations. France and Germany are among its best marketplaces, where branding capitalizes on the brand's availability in East Germany throughout the Cold War. It has also been packaged in India, the second-biggest rum market, since 2008.
Pernod Ricard actively promotes Cuban motifs in its advertising, such as branding Havana Club as "El Ron de Cuba" ("The Rum of Cuba"). It is among the most frequent goods brought back into the United States by visitors from Cuba. To prevent consumer fraud accusations, Bacardi's Havana Club bottle clearly states that it was created in Puerto Rico. Most of the time it is classified as "Havana Club Puerto Rican rum."
Pernod Ricard's labeling, which Cubaexport created during the 1970s, is gold and crimson and depicts the Giraldilla, a weathervane from Havana's historic fort. Pernod Ricard has said that identical gold and red packaging would be used on its "Havanista" items in the United States.
The Maestros del Ron Cubano perfectly exemplified the Havana Club's principles. It is "a cultural inheritance handed down from Maestro to Maestro," as Don José Navarro, the prime Maestro del Ron Cubano, phrased it. The ambitious Maestro is subjected to intensive training for 15 years. They are taught to choose the best molasses, monitor fermentation and distillation, select the best barrels to store the distillates in, and mix them to produce the greatest rums under the guidance of a veteran Maestro del Ron Cubano.
Maestros del Ron Cubano at Havana Club started planning for the city's historic anniversary in 1999 by choosing and combining batches of rum from their mature stock. The Maestros followed this procedure every five years for the following two decades, re-blending the liquors and returning them to barrel for additional aging.
Maestros del Ron Cubano at Havana Club started planning for the city's historic anniversary in 1999 by choosing and combining batches of rum from their mature stock. The Maestros followed this procedure every five years for the following two decades, re-blending the liquors and returning them to barrel for additional aging.
This arrives in a hand-numbered decanter intrigued by Havana's architecture. The intricate gold decoration on the presenting box reflects the masonry seen in ancient Havana Vieja.
The case comes with an original certificate issued by Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historian of Havana City, and endorsed by the four founding Masters of the Havana Club 1519.
Tributo's third bottle, which is aged in Scotch whisky barrels, brings further smokiness to the rum's elegant, smooth flavor profile. Dry fruits and raisins are evident in the scent, with a full-bodied taste of fruit, smoke, and toasted oak that will leave you satisfied. This could get Islay drinkers to switch to rum.
The scents of raisins, dried fruit, and faint oak spice are well-balanced in the 2019 edition of Havana Club Tributo. Fresh coconut, creamy coffee, oak spice, and delicious dried apricots are all present on the palate.
The rum was unveiled during the 2019 Habanos Festival in Cuba, where it was released for the fourth time. Three cohorts of Maestros del Ron Cubano, each choosing a rare matured rum foundation from a different period, came together to create this unique Cuban rum. The three rums were aged for many years in French oak barrels before being packaged at 40% ABV to complete the mix. Havana Club Tributo is limited to 2,500 bottles, and each one is delivered in a beautiful oak wooden box.
