Havana Club

[beans]

Here is an interesting article from today's Miami Herald.

[Bolivar Petit Corona]

Nice article, thanks.

There's another one, too:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/busin...day/8288349.htm

Edited March 29, 2004 by Bolivar Petit Corona (log)

[Markus Lewalski]

Nice article. It shows again the attitude of the Bacardi Family with regard to Cuba. (Hasn't there been a similar dispute with the Matusalem brand?)

For those who understand German I have link about the wheelings and dealings of the Bacardi Clan:

http://www.kuba-info.org/tipps/wissenswert...a63193330c4e401

(b.t.w., a few months ago a saw a report on TV with more or less the same content)

It seems that Bacardi is really scared about an important competitor on the international rum market.

And by comparing the quality of HC and Bacardi they are scared with good reason...

As long as HC 3 retails at more or less the same price as the regular white Bacardi and the HC 7 retails at the same price as the Bacardi 8 I don't see any reason to buy Bacardi.

I'm only sorry for our American rum lovers that they don't have direct access to the best rums in the world.

But as long as the embargo continues and Bacardi keeps fighting for that there is more HC for the rest of the world (and for me).

If the US market is open for Cuban rums I fear that the quality will deteriorate and prices will go up as Cuba won't be able to satisfy the demand of the biggest rum market in the world.

So keep at it, Bacardi!

Viva Cuba

Markus

[ctgm]

I don't know why I did it but I saw a bottle in my local supermarkert of Havana Club Anejo Reserva at not too much, so I bought it.

Wow - what a mistake. Awful stuff and can't wait until the weekend when I can use it in a rum punch. Am I missing something here as I thought that it should be quite nice. If I had to use one word to sum it up I think it would be "industrial".