Bacardi

Bacardi was founded by a Spaniard who emigrated to Cuba in the early 20th century. Don Facundo Bacardi Masso was born in 1814 in Catalonia and came to Santiago as a teenager.

Facundo began producing pleasant, refined rums. His methods included barrel maturation and carbon filtration. Facundo Bacardi, together with his brother José, founded a distillery in 1862. The building was also inhabited by a population of fruit bats, so there is a logo with a bat on each bottle.

After the Cuban War of Independence, some of the most popular cocktails were created in Cuba. Among them Cuba Libre and Daiquiri - the basis of both cocktails was Bacardi rum. Ernest Hemingway allegedly demanded that his daiquiri be prepared with white Bacardi rum.

To cope with the huge increase in orders, Bacardi acquired a bottle-filling factory in Mexico in 1930. The distillery was located in Puerto Rico, where Bacardi is still produced today. For more than twenty-five years, Bacardi rum remains the number one best-selling distillate in the United States.