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    Maestra del Ron Cubano

    Salomé Alemán

    Maestra del Ron Cubano, Havana Club

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    Maestra del Ron Cubano
    Havana Club. No portrait has been provided.

    Havana Club. No portrait has been provided.

    i. Biography

    Salomé Alemán received the title of Maestra del Ron Cubano, the first woman ever to hold Cuba's master-rum-maker designation. She works for Havana Club, moving between the warehouses, laboratory and blending areas and overseeing fermentation, distillation, barrel selection, ageing, blending and bottling. In her own words: 'It isn't a science learned from books, but a craft passed from heart to heart, from Cuban to Cuban.'

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