Havana Club has launched what it’s described as “the first-ever prestige Cuban rum to be finished in smoky whisky casks”.
Havana Club Tributo 2018 is the third instalment in the brand’s Tributo collection, a series of annual releases that celebrates the different elements of the authentic Cuban rum production process.
The new expression was released in Cuba at the Cigar Habanos Festival this week and has a worldwide limited release of 2,500 bottles.
The ultra-super-premium rum is presented in a luxury wooden box, crafted in white wood that reinforces the role of oak in the 2018 edition. Each bottle is numbered and personalised with Maestro del Ron Cubano, Asbel Morales’s signature. Tributo 2018 is bottled at 40% ABV and is available from this month.
If you’re thinking “that sounds like it could be expensive”, you’re bang on the money. Quite a lot of money, as it happens. A 70cl bottle RSPs at €400 although retailers are, of course, free to set their own price.
