Paticruzado rum or Paticruzao, as it is usually called in Cuba, has always been very popular among Cubans, especially in the east of the island.
According to a legend in Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of Cuban light rum and Paticruzao, when the market placed Bacardí rum, at very affordable prices, as one of the main rum traders since the end of the 19th century, the exclusive house of Ron Añejo Matusalem, its local competitor, revealed a family secret kept in the factory where some barrels lay incognito, with rum bases with sui generis characteristics. Then the taster on duty tasted the formula, bequeathing part of the name of the drink to posterity when he said: ¡Esto paticruza al más pintao! That is to say roughly: whoever drinks this will end up cross-legged (drunk).
This is how the Matusalem house of aged rums then returned to the usual popular preference with the new Paticruzao at more competitive prices.
It is also said that the Rum Palmas Los Marinos Paticruzado, was specially designed for sailors, a social sector that at the time often could not buy the best rums produced by Bacardí or the aged rums of Matusalem, widely spread in the market for their quality but with prices that were inaccessible to them.
Amber in appearance, clear, shiny, transparent; with a subtle taste and smell, gently perceptible by its aged note, Paticruzao is as pleasant to the palate, and even more so, than any other traditional rum from Santiago de Cuba, a perfect match for our cigars.
Currently, the brand belongs to the Santiago de Cuba rum producer. It has been a long time, many years of waiting and almost oblivion, that this marvel of rum had disappeared from the national market. We are therefore delighted with the happy return of Paticruzado to the chain of stores specializing in Cuban cigars, coffee and rum.
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