Havana Club Maximo. Not a rum I ever envisaged reviewing on the site. Please note the image to the left is taken from the Whisky Exchange blog and is not my photograph. It is purely for illustrative purposes.
I recently got involved in a Twitter Tasting with Havana Club rum. As part of this process I was sent 50ml samples of the four more exclusive/expensive rums in the brands portfolio. Seleccion de Maestros, 15 Year Old, Union and this, the Maximo.
Havana Club Anejo 3 Anos (Aged 3 years) is a white rum from the Cuban rum producers. With news of a possible embargo on Cuban products in the US I felt it a good time to review this staple of the UK and Europe’s style bars.
Distributed in the UK by Pernod-Ricard, Havana Club’s main competition comes from the Puerto Rican powerhoubse Bacardi. Which is distributed by Bacardi-Brown-Forman. Oddly I cannot think of many White Rums which have any kind of meaningful presence in the UK other than Havana Club and Bacardi. To be honest Bacardi has become such a byword for white rum that I doubt many people who drink Bacardi even realise it is rum!
Havana Club Seleccion de Maestros. Even if this was your favourite rum and you bought it every week and dreamed about it every night. I bet you still would struggle to spell it!
I apologise now for any spelling mistakes contained within the rum. Wherever possible I will use the term “rum” alone to describe this, ermmmm…..rum.
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