Havana Club Tributo 2020 Limited Edition / 40% / 0.7l

The Havana Club brand was created in Cuba in 1934. Rums of this brand were produced by the family company José Arechabala SA. Havana Club rums were sold in Cuba and exported to the USA.

After the end of the Cuban revolution, the Arechabala family was forced to emigrate in 1960, and the brand itself was nationalized. In 1972, attempts were made to reactivate the brand, focusing on the Soviet and Eastern European markets. In 1993, the Cuban government began cooperation with the French concern Pernod Ricard and established the Corporación Cuba Ron company, in which both parties have equal shares. Meanwhile, the competing concern, Bacardi, having purchased the original recipe for Havana Club rum from the Arechabala family, also began producing rum under the same brand in 1994. Bacardi products were intended for the American market, which had been closed to Cuban products since the Cuban revolution. A legal battle for the rights to the brand is ongoing, which does not prevent its products from conquering world markets and the hearts of rum lovers.

Havana Club Tributo 2020 is the fifth annual special edition, prepared "in homage to the unparalleled excellence of Cuban rum". The rum is blended from distillates aged for an undisclosed period in oak barrels, including French oak barrels. Only 2,500 individually numbered bottles have been released.

Nose : Dried fruit, plums, linseed oil, pecans, leather, tobacco, caramel.

Taste : Bittersweet, intense, with notes of dried fruit, tobacco, oak, black tea and plums.

Finish : Long, with notes of vanilla, oak and cinnamon.