CubaPLUS Magazine

Havana Club, world leader of the Ultra-Premium and Prestige rums, presented the rum Tribute 2018, the third of the Tribute collection to honour the different elements that are part of the production process, in this opportunity to the barrels, where the spirituous drink is aged. 

In a press conference carried out in the Museum of Rum, in the historical old part of the Cuban capital, Cristian Barre, General Director of Havana Club International S.A. said that the new rum has a smoky touch of elegance, a unique taste that the maturity in smoky Whisky barrels offered to this rum 

Barre pointed out that this production will be limited to only 2 500 bottles to be marketed in 21 countries.  

Likewise, the company’s sales manager, Abel Alvarez, stood out that this rum is a jewel inside the rums Havana Club, designed to taste with habano cigar, which is why this opportunity was chosen for its presentation, as part of the activities of the XX International Habano Festival which currently runs in the Cuban capital. 

The master rum Asbel Morales explained that the new rum is a mixture elaborated starting from the best reserves of rum, aged in barrels of more than six decades that have been safeguarded by the Cuban Masters Rum. 

Morales, said a Havana Club’s explanatory note, selected and mixed the extracted rums of these valuable barrels meticulously, and then to finishes the process with a finish in smoky whisky barrels. With this method was obtained the first Cuban rum with a delicate, but distinctive smoky note. 

The new spirituous is part of the Havana Club’s Iconic collection and according to Morales there will be surprises for next 2019, when they expect to honour the significance of the mixtures art in the rum making process.