{"title":"Don Poncho Rum","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eDon Pancho Origenes is the most personal and hard-won rum project in the entire spirits world — the life's work of Francisco Jose Fernandez Perez, a Cuban-born Maestro Ronero whose 50-year journey through the rum industry is as extraordinary as the liquid he produces. Born in Cuba, Don Pancho spent nearly four decades as the head of research and development for Havana Club — modernizing Cuba's entire rum industry in the 1970s and earning one of the rarest titles in spirits, Maestro Ronero. When new ownership sought to compromise the rum he had dedicated his life to perfecting, he refused — and relocated to Panama, where he discovered a neglected distillery in the Herrera region and rebuilt it into Las Cabras Distillery, now considered one of the great rum facilities in the world. At its heart sits a copper column still unlike any other — the last known functioning still of its kind in the world, the sister to the legendary Pennsylvania Michters still that produced some of America's most storied whiskeys. Every Don Pancho Origenes expression is dated by the age of the youngest rum in the blend, personally selected by Don Pancho from his own prized barrel collection, with zero additives, zero coloring, and zero compromise. The 8 Year earned Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The 18 Year won 100 out of 100 points in blind tasting at the Berlin Rum Festival. These are rums that earn their reputation. Browse our full Don Pancho collection with fast nationwide shipping delivered straight to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/chipsliquor.com\/collections\/don-poncho-rum.oembed","provider":"Chips Liquor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}