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Havana Club 7-Year rum

Havana Club 7-Year

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Cuba | Aged | 40% ABV

Havana Club 7-Year Rum is distilled from fermented molasses and aged in charred white oak barrels for seven years.

Havana Club rum is still made in Cuba - where the company was founded by José Arechabala in 1878 and then nationalized in 1959 after the Cuban Revolution. Havana Club is now jointly owned by Pernod Ricard and the Cuban government.

6.5/10
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Tasty, but not quite great
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1060 Havana Club 7-Year Ratings

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Halsey 🇺🇸 | 39 ratings
Posted almost 6 years ago

For those of us who live in the US, but I had a bottle when on vacation in the Cayman Islands. It was a few months ago, so the details will be slightly blurred...but here goes.
This is a medium to slightly dark rum. Full bodied, but not aggressive. I felt like I was drinking "true" Rum, without a lot of additives. It was leathery, and slightly tannic (being a wine drinker, I liked that) with just enough sweetness to please me. I really enjoyed this rum, and my traveling companions did not, which was just fine with me. I din't have to try and sneak any home, and didn't have to share it. Win/Win.

Graham Davie 🇬🇧 | 66 ratings
Posted almost 7 years ago

Unmistakably Cuban from the moment you open the bottle, it has a aroma that is full of fruit and a suggestion of being older than it is.
Perfect to drink by itself, with ice or even with your favourite mixer.
A rum you can give to anyone, for their first taste or a rum connoisseur.
Graham.

Jagsroy (PREMIUM) 🇨🇦 | 288 ratings
Posted almost 7 years ago

Sampled this rum while in Cuba, aromas of caramel and molasses are evident to the nose. This is a decent quality rum that I would qualify as a good sipper rum. Oak is noticeable and the finish is smooth.

Update: purchased a bottle of Havana Club 7 yr and this is definitely up m6 alley. Reminds me somewhat of the Mount Gay XO although not as strong or sweet. Deserves an 8 rating.

Wekke 🇧🇪 | 68 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

For what it costs it's an amazing rhum.
Not too sweet and rather complex for it's age.
I like it more and more after every sip i take.

Kristof 🇧🇪 | 42 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

One of the first rums I added to my collection. The taste is just okay, nothing special about it.

Dieter De Kée 🇧🇪 | 1 rating
Posted over 8 years ago

It's a good rum to start your collection with. It's flavours aren't to strong so you can use it to learn to drink rum straight.. Also comes in handy to give your cocktails an extra punch and a bit stronger rum-taste than a regular white rum.

Casi 1896 🇩🇪 | 24 ratings
Posted 9 years ago

Der Preis schwankt immer zwischen 20€ und 28€. Man kann ihn pur trinken, aber meiner Meinung nach ist er besser für einen "sehr guten" Cuba Libre geeignet.

kpayne5995 🇺🇸 | 4 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

Clean and smooth at a great price. Not too sweet. I always have a bottle in the cabinet.

Erik B 🇸🇪 | 14 ratings
Posted over 1 year ago

This rum is my work horse for rum cocktails, and I'm never disappointed.

New Province 🇳🇱 | 13 ratings
Posted over 1 year ago

To put it mildly: it's a just-not. Let me explain how, not why.
Imagine a knife's edge you re dropping a marble on. It can go either way. Well this rum is like a tad bit not-enough to pass to the good side and there for it immediatly drops down to the bad side. It is difficult to explain but it's a rough taste of something that should have been something like angelic piss really. The 7 year años is branded like its some premium rum but it's really not. I would say a 4,9 for me but really just not a 6 and pass. This is exactly how I experience this rum. A 6 would be tasty, but it just isn't. A 5 would be easily consumable in a bind, but with a burn I have a mild trouble to say it is. Rounding it off from that 4.9 I can give it a 5 but it's a 5 with a *.

An ill played 5.0 for me. I still experience a throat burn with it, and it's a hard taste, some write that down as leathery but I would I think that wouldn't be the best fit for it. I lack the vocabulary to describe it better but to me a 6,5 (as it is rated on average now) is too much credit for a rum that doesn't even seem to try. This rum's company however is really trying to make it be something it's not. I would not feed this to my crew if I had other options, let alone be it the captain's own rum.

I would not buy this rum again, and I bought 2 to make sure I got it right. As the saying in my country goes: if the lid unscrews instead of uncorks, it is shit in a bottle. And this bottle does seem to put truth to that statement a little bit.

Stefan Persson (PREMIUM) 🇸🇪 | 507 ratings
Posted 5 years ago

Time for Birka’s rumcruise 2019 at the Baltic Sea. This was one of the rums that were included at Ian Burrell’s Master class, “Blindtest”. We tested it neat and I had some problems to distinguish it from the Abuelo 12, but got it right.
I don’t think I will drink this neat again, but it’s a nice mixer rum when you want a dark one.
Picture: Brands included at the blindtest.




Brand Details

Name: 7-Year
Years Aged: 7
ABV: 40%
Type: Havana Club
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led Rum: No

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