Rum Havana Club Pacto Navio Red Wine Cask Finish (Cuba) / 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.

Pacto Navio is a reference to the 1815 treaty between Spain and France that restored commercial shipping on the Atlantic. Thanks to it, supplies of French and Spanish wine reached the New World again, and Caribbean rum was brought to Europe in wine barrels emptied on the spot. The long sea voyage created an opportunity for the rum to mature further and gain new accents through contact with the wine-soaked oak of the barrels. Red Wine Cask Finish is a traditional Cuban molasses-based rum, subjected to additional maturation for 3 months in French oak barrels that had previously held Spanish Rioja.

Nose: Accents of leather, milk chocolate, salted caramel and dark summer fruits straight from Rioja wine.

Taste : Intense, full and smooth, with accents of vanilla, caramel, fruit, cloves and chocolate.

Finish: Long, vinous and spicy.