Havana Club evolves in the bottle.

Well I made it a week with a good Tot left. Not sure my pallet is pure enough to recognize (Cigar Smoker) Anyway I did think it was a bit better. I have a bottle of HC 15 coming will deffinately try another shot at it.

Jimmy, hopefully the rum gods will comply. I'm expecting a bottle of Maestro this weekend from Canada and will again put it through the 7 day test so stay tuned. Arrrgh!

Ok I'm ready opened a 65th birthday Father's Day bottle of Santiago de Cuba Isla Tesoro last night. Very mild easy to drink not very complex hope to keep some for 7 days. Might be hard it's wax sealed have to open cork like wine, but the opening is too big for any cork from anything I can find. Drinking some now dry smooth satisfying but without any lingering depth. 

Update, my last bottle of Maestro and it's day 7. Yep, that dark chocolate came out this time too! I'm now convinced that H.C. has something unique that others don't. Just wish I could get this locally. Cheers!

Jimmy, I have the same situation with my rum. I enjoy it before it can evolve. It was just by chance that we discovered this going on. This may actually allow me to cut down on my drinking. Lol. But with that being said I'm all over this and now have adapted to this 7 day rule. I thinking some rums will take longer some less and maybe some not at all. But, this H.C. has it. There's no doubt in my mind! This may be what rum is all about. Hey, you never know!. I'll be standing by to see what you have found. Cheers!

Need to try this myself. I typically enjoy Maestros right from opening. 

Bar, I agree that the 2 are quite different. The Maestro is more refined and dryer. I like both! So, although oxidation does seem logical I've never noticed it in other rums. I will now be paying closer attention looking for this change in all my rums. I especially like this change with H.C. it's like a 2 for 1 flavor deal. When I first noticed it with the 7yr old I had no clue as to timing. This time I wasn't expecting this change with the Maestro but kept an eye out on the timing. Last night was day 7 and that's when I started to detect this same change. And last week we finished off a bottle of 7yr that had been on the boat for a good couple of months and we didn't notice any further change but thought that it may have lost a bit of the original change from when we hit the bottle about a week after opening it. So this may be a temporary adjustment that the rum goes through with oxidation. Very interesting situation and well rewarding! Cheers!!!

you re talking about oxidation, but it s not so fast in my opinion, and by the way havana club 7 and seleccion of maestros are totally different things, the maestros is very dry while the 7 y.o. have additional sweetenings, if you see that rums are better after oxidation is nice for us to read here your impressions