Alicia Díaz is a rum-maker and member of the Díaz family, founders and former owners of the Don Rumbotico distillery in Havana. The family specialized in producing small batch, barrel-aged rum, and their recipe remains a family secret. When an anonymous financial group offered to buy the distillery, her family initially refused. However, the distillery burned down in a suspected arson, and they, left with nothing, were forced to set it for a fraction of its value.
Alicia was interviewed by the Havana Sun about the selling of the distillery and her family legacy. She indicated to the newspaper that she felt Don Rumbotico's current products are inferior to the family recipe and feared that recent changes in Havana meant that the city was losing its cultural legacy.[1]
Trivia
- Her family name is spelled with the diacritical mark in the image of the newspaper, and it is spelled without it in the translation.
References
- ↑ 2019-04-07, [LOCAL] How Don Rumbotico's international fame is slowly erasing its founders from the narrative - News - Overwatch. Blizzard Entertainment, accessed on 2019-04-07