Museo del Ron Havana Club
Colonial mansion museum tracing rum-making from cane field to barrel, with tastings led by master blenders.
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This guide to the Museo del Ron Havana Club in Havana sets up a single number: fifteen years, the minimum a rum maker spends tasting, blending and failing before Cuba grants the title maestro ronero. It walks the eighteenth-century harbor mansion, past a mule-worked sugar mill model, a hand-worked cooperage and a miniature cane train, tracing a craft that reaches back to 1862 in Santiago de Cuba and was declared UNESCO intangible heritage in 2022. Along the way you'll meet Don Jose Navarro, who created Havana Club's seven-year rum and called the tradition one passed from heart to heart.
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