Ron Yacare is an Anejo (aged) rum from the Dominican Republic. It has been difficult to find any information regarding this rum, mainly due to this being predominantly for the Spanish speaking market.
Ron Yacare from the information on the bottle is distributed by Carrefour Supermarket group. I assume it is available in their stores, which are found mostly in France and Spain. From web searches they also produce a Honey based Ron Miel and they have a Viejo and Reserva Exclusiva expression as well. I think that Yacare is more of a brand name and I do not think all of the rums in their range come from the Dominican Republic.
Brugal have made a concerted effort to break into the UK market over the past couple of years. The rum has been re-branded and has even found itself in one or two of the nations supermarkets. The rum is imported into the UK by The Erdington Group based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Brugal are one of the big three “B’s” in rum production on the Dominican Republic. (Barceló and Bermudez are the other two) For those who do not know the Domician Republic is the politically divided island of Hispaniola. The remaining part of the island is Haiti.
Bermudez is a Dominican rum producer and along with Brugal and Barceló make up the “big” 3 B’s of Dominican rum. The Bermudez 1852 Aniversario is a rum which has been aged for 12 years. It is bottled but once a year. The rum is aged in select oak barrels and according to one website offering it for sale “is comparable to old brandy”.
Ron Espero – which roughly translates to “Rum of Hope” hails from the Dominican Republic and is bottled in Panama. They have a fairly uninspiring English language website and the rum is imported into Europe by Haromex Development GmbH.
Read other blogs etc and you’ll see a war of words over what this rum actually is. Is it Cuban or is it Dominican? Should it be called a Cuban rum? Blah,blah,blah