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Posted
over 8 years ago
As common as anything in Cuba. Very cheap and popular. The brand the locals drink, and you can see why. Not one to have straight, but any other way it's a winner. Fill up your suitcase on the way home with this!
Posted
almost 8 years ago
Wonderful flavor- very smooth. recommend it to dark / aged rum drinkers
Posted
over 1 year ago
I tried this rum in Cuba in 2008. I remember that it was very common on the island, and it was very similar to the añejoHC. good taste and flavor
Posted
over 1 year ago
Nice rum tu buy as presents when you go to Cuba, very inexpensive yet still tropical
Great tasting sipping rum for the price. Hard to find in Cuba anymore but worth purchasing if you can
Posted
2 years ago
found somewhere in the net that this is same rum as havana anejo especial just different package, we tested them and aroma and mouth and color really the same ... so i ll give it
same rating !
Posted
almost 3 years ago
Not a huge difference from the extra Anejo 12 similar taste a bit more alcohol scent and not as much depth. Classic Cuban rum neither can hold their own to the 20 one of my favorites.
Posted
3 years ago
I bought this one in Cuba in 2013. It was nothing special. To me the Havana line is much better than this.
Posted
over 3 years ago
Plus dur à trouver que le Havana Club, mais beaucoup plus savoureux, excellent pour rhum & coke, arôme de vanille et très doux en bouche. Pour le prix c'est très dur à battre.
Posted
over 4 years ago
As far as I can discern this rum is the Havana Club 7 of the Santiago line. Okay straight up and certainly better than most lower tier rums available in Canada, but not one I would bring back from Cuba. The 12 year old is worlds above this.
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8
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out of 10
Well, Cuban rum is not just cheaper members of the Havana Club lineup - up to 7y, all with pronounced tobacco and wood. This is quite different style, and after an initial "shock and awe" period, I discovered a very smooth (for its age and price) and tasty rum here. The nose is quite unusual for rum, it reminds me of aged French calvados, contains chocolate, cocoa, a hint of oak, the taste is spicy yet smooth, pretty straightforward, light, with a hint of vanilla and chocolate, maybe some tobacco, the finish is mild spices, with oaky Calvados, medium long, ending with a red wine dryness. It shares some similarity with Conde de Cuba 5y or 7y, but it is more crispy, spicy, well defined and quite a lot cheaper. It shares also some traits with Cubay Anejo, which is good news - Cubay Anejo is an embodiment of excellent Cuban rum for a reasonable price. I can sip it, it makes neat rum and coke, and for its price, some 20% more than Captain Morgan - it is just perfect. No sugar detected.