Don Facundo Bacardi Masso emigrated to Cuba from Spain in 1830. Arriving as a wine merchant he set up as a grocer in the 1840s and was experimenting with distillation by 1852 trying to improve the quality of the local rum by trying various technical experiments in distillation and ageing. As a result of these experiments Facundo decided to use ... Read More »
The best-selling spirit brand worldwide, enjoyed in more than 170 countries. Bacardi Carta Blanca was created in 1862 and is still, remarkably, a family-controlled brand.
Released in autumn 2011, Bacardi Oakheart is a spiced rum-based spirit and is so-called because some of the rums are matured in ex-bourbon oak casks. Notes of brown sugar, honey and burnt vanilla custard with a short, lightly cinnamony finish.
A lemon-flavoured variant for the Bacardi range, flavoured with essences of lemon, grapefruit and other citrus fruit and aged for a year. Brilliant in soft drinks and fruit juices.
Apple-flavoured Bacardi variant. Under EU law, this is not strictly speaking a rum as it's less than 40%. So it's really a rum-based flavoured spirit if you want to get pedantic.
A hard-to-find special Bacardi, rich, dry and balanced with a delicate but well-defined array of flavours. Aged in oak barrels and charcoal-filtered to an original formula by the great Don Facundo.
One of the oldest bottles of Bacardi we've ever come across, we believe this to date from around a century ago, when Bacardi was still made in Cuba by Don Facundo's sons and Fidel Castro was still a twinkle in his father's eye. A bottle from only a few years after the invention of the Daiquiri, this is an important artifact in rum history.