Havana Club Añejo 7 Year Old

Havana Club is owned by Pernod these days; whatever else you might say about "the man", if its wide distribution means I have easy access to this little gem for a reasonable price then I'm all for it!
For under £25 (and regularly £20-22 in supermarkets - which is sometimes less than the cheaper Anejo) this is a stunner.
I think it's at that cut-off price range - just on the edge of being a sipper, but possibly considered a little pricey for a mixer. To my mind it just about does both.
My partner and I exemplify this: she likes it neat with a little ice (she says the smell is like a party), but I prefer it with ginger beer and a wedge of orange or lime and LOADS of ice.
If I could only have one rum it would probably be this one. Luckily I have lots of rum so I can say that without having to honour it ;)

6th October 2021

Sip this neat in a glen cairn, tell me your not thinking of a sherryed highland scotch.
Lovley rum.

7th August 2021

Toffee followed by charred oak.
Simple, yet for the money, it's a bargain.

Bought it to pass round the campfire, and it did the job happily.

15th June 2021

Really tasty, couldn’t figure out the flavour at first, I thought it was similar to Malibu or peach which I usually hate but this was lovely!

16th May 2021

Since Xmas spiced rum and rum is my new thing - much to the annoyance of my other half. I started drinking kraken with a cube of ice, loved it. I started looking at rum online and found out that spiced rum wasn't really rum and me being me I wanted to try rum. I bought a bottle of Havana 7 as it was in my budget and was recommended for sipping. Now coming from kraken to this took me 3/4 of the bottle to properly adjust to the flavours of HC7. All i was getting to start with was wood/smoke and leather taste from start to finish so I had a break from it for a couple of weeks. Now when I went back to HC7 i was pleasantly surprised with what was going on on my pallette. Now on entry I'm getting toffee/vanilla moving on to smokey wood and spice on the tongue followed by a smooth exit with only slight alcohol burn. I have to say I think ill always have a bottle of this in the cupboard it took a while to adjust to the flavour but was definitely worth the wait.

8th March 2021

Overrated. You drink it as a best of a bunch when you're out. Its not good neat, its good as a mixer, for this price there's better rums out there. If your in the UK try appleton estate or red leg spiced (not pinapple version) for better tasting rums. Overrated.

19th December 2020

Recipe appears to have been changed for the worse when the packaging changed from the tall thin bottle to the current short,squat,package. I have multiple examples,bought from around the world,and there is a definite difference poured and tasted side by side.Older package has a much sweeter taste of wood,chocolate,and tobacco.Newer package is more whisky oriented.Maybe they got new aging barrels?

1st October 2020

I hope it's like Cahuita coconut and vanilla run.That was liquid gold nectar, drank neat that slid smoothly , so buying this may be a worthy substitute

30th July 2020

I'm yet to find a better rum to have a rum and coke with. Can be drunk neat also it's really rather good.

29th July 2020

My first introduction to rum. Really enjoyable.

22nd June 2020