More time passes, and with the thawing of Cuban/U.S. Bacardi then begins selling a Puerto Rican white rum under the Havana Club name (only in Florida) in a bit of an “F U” to the Castro regime and Pernod Ricard, the French multinational liquor company that got the rum to the international market. Time passes and the Arechabala family sells the “Havana Club” trademark to the Bacardi family (which also fled Cuba and lost their original distillery) along with the recipe for the original Havana Club rum. After the revolution, the revolutionary government seized the distillery, the family fled Cuba, and the new government eventually began selling rum under the same name. For the uninitiated, you can read a great article on the topic here, but if you’re short on time, here’s my TLDR version:īefore the Cuban Revolution, the Arechabala family founded a distillery and made a rum called Havana Club. It’s a fascinating legal squabble, and the stakes are high. If you follow Inu A Kena on social media (and you should, of course ) you’ve been keeping up with the epic “Havana Club” trademark battle between Pernod Ricard and Bacardi.

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