According to one of the most popular legends of Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of Cuban light rum and city where the "paticruza" was created, the last years of the 19th century have passed when the market placed Bacardi Rum as one main competitors.
This scenario caused its counterpart, the Matusalem vintage firm, a drop in income, especially when the Bacardi Emporium also sold, and only 0.35 cent, another variety of category rum lower than its maximum exponent but Without much to envy.
We are talking about Ron Palmitas. In this context, the owner then of Matusalem called on a resource which, in the end, as his grandfather predicted, rigorously, would be the saving pardon of the company. Depending on family secret, transmitted by different generations, behind an old factory office were "tanks" (a sort of barrels) based on characteristic rum. Once the wall is demolished and the find revealed ... The "tastor" of guard tastes the formula, bequeathing part of the name of the drink to posterity when he says: (...) This most pinto paticruza! (…) They also say that the Palmas Los Marinos Paticruzado rum (official name today) was specially designed for sailors, a social sector which at the time could not often buy rums produced by Bacardí or the Matusalem aged , widespread in the market for its quality but with prices which were inaccessible to them.
With an amber, clear, shiny, transparent appearance; Slightly perceptible taste and smell of its aged note with a degree of 38 ° and a volume 70 cl.
