Now imagine that after a decade of working hard to save up enough to run your own wine business and starting a family with your wonderful wife, and strong matriarch, Doña Lucia ‘Amalia’ Victoria Moreau, you feel like all is right with your world again. That is, until two devastating earthquakes hit your city and the outbreak of cholera that comes afterwards claims the lives two of your children and countless others. To top it off, after the outbreak is over, you find your business looted and have to file for bankruptcy. (Ok, this is getting heavy, but we promise things look up, don’t worry!). Irónicamente, el ron Bacardí no es conocido por las nuevas generaciones de santiagueros, aunque en la memoria popular la fábrica se siga conociendo con este nombre.

The vanilla taste is complimented with the flavours of nougat and honey, infused with a slight fruit punch of peach, apricot, and cinnamon spice. Leaving you with a zesty taste of green pineapple and cinnamon. Similar to Stiggins’ Fancy Plantation Pineapple. Best SeveredFinishes with bursting zesty chocolate orange and sweet apricot jam flavours, lingering into a warm mocha coffee and nutmeg spice that leaves you burning for another sip. Best Severed Cutillas fled Cuba, but not with ease. After the confiscation of the company, he tried to get an exit permit. "My exit permit was denied," he says. "Then they took my passport away when I went to Havana to ask for permission to leave the country, so then I left by other means. I left in a boat with about 15 or 20 others. I arrived in Miami six days later. Terrible sailing," he recalls with a laugh.

Con tan complicada producción, la fábrica trabaja por pedidos. Cuba Ron se limita a reabastecer el mercado, además de beneficiarse de los almacenamientos y antiguas instalaciones del que es hoy su principal adversario y competidor. Ninguna de sus marcas ha podido superar al que todavía se vende como el mejor ron del mundo. Duggleby, R. G.; Kaplan, H. (18 November 1975). "A competitive labeling method for the determination of the chemical properties of solitary functional groups in proteins". Biochemistry. 14 (23): 5168–5175. doi: 10.1021/bi00694a023. ISSN 0006-2960. PMID 42. What they did was reinvent the company. Prado was sent by Pepin Bosch to drum up business overseas with instructions to tell Bacardi's buyers that they would have to make a choice: Castro or Bacardi. Anyone doing business with Communist Cuba would not be welcome at Bacardi. Prado, giggling, recalls a particular encounter with a Dutch client who "was more anti-Communist than we were." The man stayed with Bacardi. During one visit to Australia, Prado gave a speech to a group of buyers in which he emphasized the Bacardi family's role in the company. After the talk, one of the buyers, until that moment unaware that there was a Bacardi family, enthusiastically approached Prado and said, 'I want to meet Ron.'The year is 1830. Imagine you’re fifteen-years-old and you’re about to embark on a journey far away from your home in Spain to join your brothers in Santiago de Cuba, to make a life for yourself there. Your name is Facundo Bacardí. Bacardi Limón, which has had the most successful launch ever of any new spirit (according to Impact and the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States), selling more than 350,000 cases in its first year, represents an effort to have those consumers who prefer the semisweet drinks, 66 percent of the market, drink Bacardi. Bacardi Limited has made numerous acquisitions to diversify away from the eponymous Bacardí rum brand.