Bacardi sells Havana Club, a Puerto Rican rum, in the United States. Notes: This is a review of the REAL Havana Club Rum from Cuba ( legally imported by me from Cuba on a visit there. A brief history of who legally takes over one of the best rum brands in the world. The Cuban government sold rum abroad under the Havana Club name beginning in 1972, focusing primarily on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.Since 1994, Cuban production and non-US global marketing of Havana Club has continued under a joint partnership between In 1994, Bacardi began producing rum under the Havana Club name in The Havana Club trademark has been the subject of extensive trademark litigation in the US, Spain, and World Trade Organization.In 1994, Bacardi obtained the Arechabala family's remaining rights in the brand, and began producing limited amounts of rum bearing the name. The same laws also apply to cigars but in both cases you must bring it in with you, mail order is not allowed.The other expression we brought back and reviewed, the Havana Club Selección de Maestros While better than a number of Bacardi’s rums around this price point, the “Havana Club” Añejo Blanco is ultimately disappointing.After the revolution in Cuba, the family fled the island and set up shop in Puerto Rico. One of it’s major boosts was American prohibition and Cuba becoming for Americans of the period what Amsterdam is now to Europeans, a place you could indulge in forbidden substances (in this … Update: As of July 2012, the a nswer is Bacardi and the. This is one of those examples.Havana Club was sold in the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries almost exclusively for a number of years and rarely seen outside of Cuba or those areas. They include this the “Havana Club” Anejo Blanco, This is one of two “Havana Club” rums they are trying to peddle in the United States with a very limited distribution (Florida and New York mostly) the other being the Anejo Classico (A filtered back to white aged rum). NOT the “Havana Club” made by Bacardi ( rather disingenuously labeled Havana Club Anejo Clásico Puerto Rican Rum).
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Update February 2016: Bacardi starts the trademark dispute again They began exporting this version of Havana Club globally, except for the United States due to the embargo put in place by the U.S. government. It wasn’t until 1995 – after decades of rebuilding, the Arechabala Family finally joined forces with another Cuban family in exile: Bacardi. Bacardi’s anejo rendition of Havana Club is just 1 to 3 years old, which makes it a rather young rum, and not anything I’d describe as “anejo.” I tasted it against Cuban Havana Club 3 Years Old , which is filtered to a near-white color but which should, in theory, retain the bulk of the flavor profile of a rum left without filtering. The Arechabala Family started their rum-making business in 1878 in Cuba and first registered the original HAVANA CLUB trademark in 1934. A damn fine rum for the money. The Bacardi and Havana Club brands expanded their rivalry into the U.S., becoming two of the best known rums in the world. Originally produced in Cárdenas, Cuba by family-owned José Arechabala S.A., the brand was nationalized after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. © Copyright 2020 Spirits Review by Chris Carlsson Recent developments are allowing the import of the rum into this country by tourists returning directly from Cuba and also more recently from anywhere else in the world, such as Canada or Europe for personal use only. In 1993, French owned Pernod Ricard and the government of Cuba created a state-run 50:50 joint venture called Corporación Cuba Ron. The Puerto Rican/Bacardi Havana Club is thinner, with notes of vanilla and brown sugar backed up by vaguely Indian spices (think chai), barrel char, and some grainy notes on the finish. In very much the same vein as all the cigar trademark problems in the US – Where the Cuban government is fighting trademark infringement cases for many of their major brands, Bacardi has been having an ongoing fight over the Havana Club label which is sold everywhere in the world except the U.S as a Cuban product.Bacardi offers a variety of rums of various ages and price points along with a long (and sometimes frightening) list of flavored rums. On January 1st, 1960, at gunpoint, the Cuban regime unrightfully seized the company’s assets without compensation.
The bottles: Bacardi’s Havana Club Añejo Blanco ($19.99) and Bacardi’s Añejo Clásico ($21.99) The back story: There’s perhaps no more famous a rum maker than the Bacardi company. Or is it? USA: (CT) Manchester. The American courts invalidate the Cuban trademark. Corporate Responsibility We are committed to being Good Spirited and always doing the right thing. 922 cases were sold in the US in 1995 and 1996.However, in 1998, after heavy lobbying from Bacardi, the US Congress passed the "Bacardi Act", which protected trademarks related to expropriated Cuban companies, and effectively ended the first phase of the litigation by eliminating Pernod Ricard's Following the initial round of litigation, a second round of litigation occurred, through both the US Federal court system and the In Spain, Pernod Ricard's ownership of the mark has been upheld in three court rulings, most recently in 2011.In January 2016, after a thaw in US-Cuba relations, the U.S. government awarded a trademark for Havana Club to the Cuban government, which was "expected to reignite longstanding tension between Bacardi Ltd. and the Cuban government".Pernod Ricard's Havana Club is the fifth-largest rum brand in the world, with almost 4 million cases sold in 2012–2013.Pernod Ricard plays heavily on Cuban themes in its marketing, including labeling Havana Club as "El Ron de Cuba" ("The Rum of Cuba").Pernod Ricard's labeling, originated by Cubaexport in the 1970s, is gold and red, and features the In 2016, Bacardi announced new branding and sells their version of Havana Club nationally, distilled in Puerto Rico and bottled in Florida.