Product of: Cuba

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The best-known expression of the leading Cuban rum brand, this light rum is aged for three years in ex-bourbon casks giving it a light straw yellow hue.

Produced by a joint-venture between Pernod and state-owned Cuba Ron.

Review and Tasting

Sampled on 25/06/2025

Appearance:

Clear, light straw yellow.

Aroma:

Pungent, toasted coconut, dark muscovado sugar and fudge with faint herbal vermouth/oxidised wine-like notes, pineapple and gingerbread.

Taste:

Slight honeyed muscovado sweetness, oxidised pineapple esters and caramelised pear balanced by mild ginger, black pepper spice, citrus and mellow oak.

Aftertaste:

Pineapple esters, dry vermouth-like herbal notes, delicate cracked black pepper spice, and faint vanilla oak.

Overall:

Light to medium-bodied, dry and delicately spicy with distinctive muscovado sweetness, oxidised pineapple and caramelised pear, garnished with mild ginger, citrus and mellow oak. The alcohol level may have dropped from 40%, but Havana 3 remains one of our go-to cocktail rums.