Description
Another exclusive Rum to the Rum Tribe! Weโve managed to secure the only stock in Australia of this rum. Please welcome the Ron Cubaney Tesoro Gran Reserva 25yo.
After the huge reception to the Ron Cubaney 21 year old โExquisitoโ from The Tribe last year, and completely selling out of all the extras on our online store, annnnd after the many emails asking about further Cubaney Rumsโฆ. Weโve done it! We have gone one better than the โExquisitoโโฆdrum roll pleaseโฆ Our Members Small Batch Extra is The Ron Cubaney 25 Year Old โTesoroโ Gran Reserva.
Yep โ weโve gone one better than the 21 year old โ this month we are proud to offer our members the chance to own a 25 year old Dominican rum and itโs only available in Australia from the Tribe!
Built on the hard work of the Oliver family and destroyed by revolution โ not once but TWICE! The Ron Cubaney 25 Year Old โTesoroโ Gran Reserva is a multi-award winning 25 year old rum made to the recipe of the Oliver familyโs original distillery.
Aged in the traditional Cuban method in a solera system using American Oak casks, this is rich and complex rum that is a delight to share amongst your (closest) friends.
The Ron Cubaney Tesoro is aged using the traditional โSolera Methodโ. The solera method is based on stacking multiple layers of aging barrels (called โcriaderasโ) on top of each other, with each layer progressively topping up the next one down and blending with it, year after year. The word โsoleraโ comes from the Spanish word โsueloโ which means โfloorโ. So as the angels take their share, the barrels are topped up with the contents of the slightly younger barrel and the average age of the barrel slowly increases over the years. The purpose of this labor-intensive process is the maintenance of a reliable style and quality of the rum over time.
Ron Cubaney Tesoro Grand Reserva 25 year old
Our Tasting Notes
Heavy oak with hints of leather and tobacco – and shows itself through the nutty, vanilla characters and concentrated silkiness on the palate. Ron Cubaney Treasure 25 Year Rum is round and intense with an incredibly long and persistent finish.
Ron Cubaney Tesoro Grand Reserva 25yo
About Oliver and Oliver
Cuba has always enjoyed a reputation as one of the worldโs foremost producers of rum. In the late nineteenth century some of the finest examples of Cuban rum were being produced by the Oliver family.
Juanillo Oliver, a Catalan and Mallorcan, arrived in Cuba in the mid-nineteenth century as a Spanish soldier, establishing his family on the island. After finishing his military service, Oliver decided to settle, in an area that later became known as Oliver, near the town of Las Placetas.
It was here that he and his family began to cultivate tobacco and sugar cane. The Oliver family soon began handling, storing and selling their traditionally grown products. They soon the built a mill to grind sugar cane for the production of sugars and alcohols, and Juanillo soon found himself creating local, artisanal rums and brandies.
The Oliver familyโs name was soon synonymous with the finest central Cuban rums and cigars. That was to change as revolution gripped Cuba.
During the War of Independence, separatists attacked and burned farms and destroyed the famous Oliver family distillery.
After independence was achieved in Cuba, the Oliver family abandoned its sugar cane production business, instead focusing on the cultivation and production of tobacco and other businesses and agricultural activities. They continued peacefully until 1959, when revolution again struck Cuba.
In the years following 1959, many members of the Oliver family fled Cuba and their descendants spread throughout Europe and the Americas. It wasnโt until, in the late nineteen eighties, a member of the new generation of Oliver descendants returned to Cuba.ย Pedro Ramon Lopez Oliverโs curiosity led him to explore his familyโs history. While poring over the family archives and papers, Pedro discovered the original formulas developed by the Oliverโs for the production of unique, hand-crafted Cuban rum.
Encouraged by his discovery, the descendants of Juanillo Oliver committed themselves to reviving the rum brand that had disappeared in the violence of revolution. In the early nineteen nineties Pedro and the wider Oliver family began to develop their rums, this time in San Francisco de Macoris in the Dominican Republic. It was here that Ron Cubaney โ named after its rediscovered Cuban ancestry โ was born.
The Dominican Republic shares many of the same characteristics of climate, topography, and geology as Cuba and was chosen as the ideal country in which to resume the manufacturing of this previously lost Cuban-style rum. The family operated distillery sought the advice of a group of Cuban Maestros Roneros who were living in exile in the Dominican Republic at the time. These Maestros Roneros Cubanos brought with them decades of experience in the production of Cuban rum, and became the ideal artisans to help reawaken the Ron Cubaney name.
Cuban experts were hired to help create the new plant for the production of rum in the pure, traditional Cuban style. The Oliver family had recreated the same process, heritage and formula used in the nineteenth century.ย Those techniques are still used by the present Maestros Roneros Cubanos and technicians.
The plant began by purchasing 100,000 litres of distillates and malts that had been aged for 15 years from a Demeraran source, forming the first stock produced under the new Cubaney name. This was the basis of their mother rum and the single point of origin for the rums being enjoyed today.
After a hiatus of over a century, the authentic line of Ron Cubaney can once again be enjoyed through its range of light, dark and spiced rums.
