{"id":88278,"date":"2017-03-10T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=88278"},"modified":"2017-03-07T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:38:36","slug":"tributo-2017-havana-clubs-new-iconic-rum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/economy\/cuban-economy\/tributo-2017-havana-clubs-new-iconic-rum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributo 2017, Havana Club\u2019s new iconic rum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barely 2,500 bottles of Tributo 2017, Havana Club\u2019s new rum of its iconic collection, will be marketed in the world, each one numbered as a collection piece.<\/p>\n

Sixteen countries will be the fortunate ones to serve as market for this orangish amber jewel, with an intense flavor and a predominately dry taste in the mouth, presented last Tuesday in Havana.<\/p>\n

This spirit forms part of the Tributo collection released in 2016 by the Havana Club International S.A. company. Its aim is to pay tribute to a deeply rooted tradition of the knowledgeable maestros of Cuban rum and declared a Cultural Heritage of the Nation.<\/p>\n

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Like its predecessor, Tributo 2017 is the result of a complex process of mixtures and natural aging in the cellars and barrels of Havana Club, especially in the San Jos\u00e9 rum company. But compared to the 2016 rum, which had a touch of dry tropical fruits, this one has the intensity of spirit made from sugarcane, the base of all the rum company\u2019s products.<\/p>\n

It is to this base that Tributo 2017 pays its tribute. It contains touches of more than 30-year-old spirits from when they were first distilled. That is why the distinctive color of its design is green, the color of sugarcane. Rum maestro Asbel Morales, whose signature appears on the bottle, insists that this is not the work of a single man but rather the fruit of a legacy passed from generation to generation.<\/p>\n

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Rum maestro Asbel Morales. Photo: Ismario Rodr\u00edguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about a hand-written recipe,\u201d Morales explains, \u201cbut rather about an aroma, a flavor and a tradition, That\u2019s where the secret lies: in aging and mixing a spirit with personality, which identifies the Havana Club rum; in the painstaking work that makes it possible to find a unique, exceptional smell and tasting, and for whose making one must take into account many factors: the bases, the cellars, the barrels, the temperature, the humidity, the time of the year\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the presentation of the spirit in the Rum Museum, as part of the 2017 Habano Festival, Asbel Morales emphasized on the sensorial attributes that in his opinion distinguish the second delivery of Havana Club Tributo.<\/p>\n