Havana Club Cuban Smoky Dark Rum / 40% / 1.0l

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 Cuban Smoky is a rum described by its producer as a true rebel, a rule breaker. It is a dark Cuban rum that has been matured in oak barrels that previously matured smoky, peaty Scotch whisky from the Isle of Islay.

Nose: Sweet, notes of coffee, caramel, toffee, leather, whiskey and smoke.

Palate : Tropical fruits, dried fruits, oak, whiskey, smoke.

Finish : Long, notes of burnt oak, smoke and fruit.