CONTRABANDO RUM
HISTORY
ORIGINS
Juanillo Oliver settled on the Caribbean in the mid-19th century, after arriving from his original Mallorca in order to guarantee peace in Cuba’s first war of independence.
Juanillo decided to stay on the island and applied himself to the tobacco and sugar cane business before finally turning to the rum making craft.
1959
After the eruption of the Cuban revolution, the Oliver family decided to move to the Dominican Republic, a country with perfect conditions for the elaboration of cane rum.
ARTISAN
CRAFTMANSHIP
There, from their six generations of old rum making legacy recipes and methods, their successors would found the Oliver & Oliver house, which opened its doors in Santo Domingo.
THE FIRST VOYAGE
When notary Fernando Mora returned from a pleasure trip to the Dominican Republic he hid a few gifts, unlabeled rum bottles, in his suitcase.
Since he’d brought the bottles into Spain without declaring them in customs, his importer, Luis Caballero S.A., decided to give them the Contrabando trade name.
CONTRABANDO RUM
HISTORY
ORIGINS
Juanillo Oliver settled on the Caribbean in the mid-19th century, after arriving from his original Mallorca in order to guarantee peace in Cuba’s first war of independence.
Juanillo decided to stay on the island and applied himself to the tobacco and sugar cane business before finally turning to the rum making craft.
1959
After the eruption of the Cuban revolution, the Oliver family decided to move to the Dominican Republic, a country with perfect conditions for the elaboration of cane rum.
ARTISAN
CRAFTMANSHIP
There, from their six generations of old rum making legacy recipes and methods, their successors would found the Oliver & Oliver house, which opened its doors in Santo Domingo.
THE FIRST VOYAGE
When notary Fernando Mora returned from a pleasure trip to the Dominican Republic he hid a few gifts, unlabeled rum bottles, in his suitcase.
Since he’d brought the bottles into Spain without declaring them in customs, his importer, Luis Caballero S.A., decided to give them the Contrabando trade name.