Rum Havana Club San Cristobal de la Habana (Cuba)

Havana Club uses simple but classical packaging for its top shelf rum.  An attractive bottle, curved yet masculine, and reminiscent of a matador’s physique, is topped off with a wooden screw cap.  The number 480 on the label signifies the rum was created in 1999 to commemorate the founding of the royal town (Sp: real villa) of San Cristobal de La Habana 480 years ago in 1519.  In 1519 the villa San Cristobal de La Habana was was relocated to its current site of Havana and the original city there (Carenas) was renamed.  The name is a combination of “San Cristobal” after the European discoverer and famous navigator Christopher Columbus, and “Havana”, which is the native’s word for the geographic area.