Havana Club Selección de Maestros

First tine I had it I thought this was super special ... very smooth with great flavour... not overpowering... still one of my top 10 runs but there are better ones out there

I am a huge fan of Havana Club 7 as a go to after work rum that plays well with ice, lime wedge and a dash of coke for color.

I am no expert - just know what I like. This Seleccion has a nice punch of alcohol with dry palate and hints of wood and citrus. I had a few straight with just a couple of ice cubes and squeeze of lime and then tried with coke. Definitely Italy better straight. Coke sweetens it up a bit too much and knocks down some of the flavors.

Try it you won't have any regrats. Not even one single letter.....

I picked up my first bottle of Maestros in Madrid airport on the way to business trip in Valencia. Having tried the white, Anejo, 7 year, and 15 prior I opted for something different. This rum separates the boys from the men having higher proof. I loved this rum, it was perfect for after work each evening with an ice cube or two, great with a cigar and as a nightcap. Good color strong scent and unique full bodied flavor. In reality it’s a strong 7. Have had it several time since and will buy it again.

a nice rum, but i find it a bit sharp also. And that sharpness lasts a while.

Nice strong rum. Good alcohol bite and smooth. Has a nice smoky flavor. Not at all sweet. Heavy oak with faint coffee notes. Nice finish too. Not very complex. A little thin. But a very solid rum. Very enjoyable.

I find this to be one amongst the best choices between the multi-column distilled, industrial, spanish style of rums. With an honest addition of ~7 g/l sugar, Selección de Maestros is a drier counterpart for most adulterated, commercial latino ones.
Rich, light mahogany colour in glass. You should let it breath a bit to disclose the vanilla-oaky-chestnut flavour, with hints of tobacco. 45% abv is quite an high range for these kind of rums, but despise this premises, it runs smooth down your throat. Sometimes you can catch a little alcohol-spikey sharp corpus, but that's not even close to the disturbing notes present in most of minus aged, more commercial juices.
It kicks a lot, nice afterburn and decent in duration. With some friends, we ended this in just a night... and they were all female but me (;
Top choice at around 40€ range for spanish terroirs. Highly recommended if you want to taste a glimpse of funk in Cuba!
8,5 bottles

Cant believe the 7.5 rating. This rum is damn good without being cloyingly sweet as some of the top rated rums on this site. Sip it neat. I'll be getting more when I go back to the Caribbean.

Rhum plus alcoolisé, se déguste bien avec ou sans glace.

Gylden. Duft af sødme og fad. Kan nydes alene. Fin til prisen.

Havana Club Selección de Maestros is not a bad rum it's just a tasteless one. Very smooth and mild. The taste is not that sweet, which I prefer. At 45%volume I can hardly even notice the alcohol. Over all there is not a bad word I could say about this rum, however I expected to find something else than just a good but tasteless sipper. At this price range there are better options, but I still might come back to this from time to time.