The Havana Club Martine Rose Limited Edition Añejo 7 Year Old Rum brings together one of Cuba’s best-known aged rums and the distinctive creative language of British-Jamaican fashion designer Martine Rose.
Created for the 2025 festive season, the collaboration places Havana Club 7 Años inside an expressive limited-edition bottle inspired by shared Caribbean heritage, community, music and street culture.
The liquid remains the classic seven-year-old Cuban rum, matured in ex-bourbon barrels and bottled at 40% ABV. Its rich combination of tropical fruit, molasses, vanilla, aromatic tobacco and dry cocoa is presented in packaging designed to feel closer to a collectable fashion object than a conventional rum bottle.
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Martine Rose has transformed the bottle using patterns, symbols and handwritten details developed alongside her Autumn/Winter 2025 fashion collection.
Key details include:
- Havana Club Añejo 7 Años
- Official Martine Rose collaboration
- Limited-edition bottle design
- Cuban dark rum
- Matured for seven years
- Ex-bourbon barrel maturation
- Bottled at 40% ABV
- Presented in a 70cl bottle
- Created around shared Cuban and Jamaican heritage
- Inspired by fashion, music, community and Caribbean identity
The collaboration changes the visual presentation rather than the rum recipe, making it particularly appealing to collectors who already know Havana Club 7 but want a more distinctive version of the bottle.
Who Is Martine Rose?
Martine Rose is a London-based British-Jamaican fashion designer known for combining subculture, music, streetwear and unconventional tailoring.
Her work frequently draws from lived communities and the different identities found across British urban culture. She has also worked with and dressed globally recognised artists, musicians and cultural figures.
Rose’s Jamaican background creates a natural connection with Havana Club’s Cuban heritage.
Although the two islands have their own histories and traditions, both cultures are closely connected with music, nightlife, creativity and strong community identity.
The collaboration therefore extends beyond adding a designer’s name to an existing bottle. It uses Havana Club 7 as a canvas through which Cuban and Jamaican influences can meet.
A Celebration of Shared Caribbean Heritage
The Havana Club x Martine Rose bottle was created around the idea of shared Caribbean roots.
Havana Club represents Cuba’s rum-making culture and the traditions of the Maestros del Ron Cubano. Martine Rose brings her Jamaican heritage and perspective as a British designer shaped by London’s multicultural communities.
The finished design combines:
- Jamaican and Cuban cultural influences
- Handwritten fragments
- Expressive heart motifs
- Vibrant colours
- Music-inspired details
- Cuban architectural patterns
- Fashion-led materials and finishes
Rather than treating Caribbean culture as a single visual style, the collaboration reflects the movement of people, music and ideas between different places.
It is a bottle built around connection, with fashion and rum acting as two expressions of the same wider cultural story.
The Limited-Edition Bottle Design
The bottle was developed alongside Martine Rose’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection.
Its design includes expressive hearts and handwritten fragments taken from Rose’s fashion work, combined with watercolour tiles inspired by Havana’s mosaic architecture.
Premium finishes add further texture and depth, including:
- Shimmering foil details
- Pearlescent varnishes
- Textured labels
- A custom bottle-neck motif
- Martine Rose’s embossed signature
- Layered colour and pattern
The design preserves the familiar Havana Club bottle shape and branding while giving the presentation a much more expressive personality.
The result remains instantly recognisable as Havana Club 7, but it also feels at home within a fashion, design or contemporary culture collection.
Rooted in Music and Community
Music plays an important role in both Havana Club’s identity and Martine Rose’s creative work.
Cuban music has long been connected with rum, bars and social gatherings. Martine Rose’s fashion has similarly drawn from club culture, sound systems, nightlife and communities built around music.
The bottle captures this shared rhythm through handwritten notes, repeated patterns and energetic colour.
This makes the collaboration particularly relevant to Havana Club’s wider history of working with artists and creative communities.
Previous editions have involved musicians, streetwear brands and designers, each using the seven-year-old bottle to present a different interpretation of modern culture.
A Collaboration with Purpose
The launch also included a one-of-a-kind golden leather Havana Club x Martine Rose bag.
The co-branded piece was raffled during the London launch event, with funds supporting Caribbean hurricane relief.
The bag extended the project beyond the bottle itself, bringing together fashion, cultural identity and practical support for affected Caribbean communities.
Although the golden bag was unique, its creation reflected the broader purpose behind the collaboration: celebrating heritage while recognising the communities from which that heritage comes.
The Rum Inside the Bottle
The Martine Rose edition contains the established Havana Club 7 Años liquid.
Created by the late Don José Navarro, Havana Club 7 was developed to show that Cuban rum could offer enough maturity and complexity to be enjoyed slowly, rather than being used solely as a cocktail ingredient.
The rum is produced in Cuba and matured in ex-bourbon barrels for seven years.
Its flavour is shaped by:
- Cuban sugar-cane molasses
- The distillery’s continuous ageing process
- Ex-bourbon American oak
- Cuba’s warm tropical climate
- Blending by the Maestros del Ron Cubano
- Slow integration of fruit, spice and wood
The result is a rich dark rum that retains enough balance and freshness for cocktails while offering the depth expected from a sipping expression.
What Does Continuous Ageing Mean?
Havana Club’s production involves a continuous process of ageing, selecting, blending and returning components to oak.
Rather than simply filling a barrel and bottling its contents after seven years, the Maestros del Ron Cubano work with different rum bases and aged reserves to create the finished profile.
This allows the blend to combine:
- Freshness
- Mature oak
- Tropical fruit
- Rich molasses
- Vanilla
- Spice
- Tobacco and cocoa
The process requires close attention to the character of each component and how it develops within Cuba’s warm climate.
It is this blending tradition that gives Havana Club 7 its balance between sweetness, dry oak, fruit and spice.
Matured in Ex-Bourbon Barrels
The rum spends its maturation in barrels previously used for American bourbon.
These casks commonly contribute flavours such as:
- Vanilla
- Caramel
- Coconut
- Toasted oak
- Honey
- Baking spice
The oak complements the richer flavours of the Cuban rum without completely obscuring its tropical fruit and molasses character.
After seven years, the finished profile has considerably more depth than a lighter white rum but remains approachable at 40% ABV.
Havana Club Martine Rose Tasting Notes
Because the collaboration contains Havana Club 7 Años, its tasting profile follows the established seven-year-old expression.
Nose
Aromatic Cuban tobacco and ripe tropical fruit are joined by vanilla, molasses and gentle oak. Honey and brown spice add further richness.
Palate
Full-bodied and rounded, with dark sugar, caramelised fruit, vanilla and warming spice. Dry cocoa, tobacco and seasoned wood bring balance to the sweeter notes.
Finish
Long and warming, with lingering tropical fruit, cocoa, vanilla, tobacco and oak spice.
How to Serve Havana Club 7
The seven-year-old rum is versatile enough for neat drinking, simple mixed serves and richer cocktails.
Neat
Pour a measured serving into a tasting glass and allow it to rest for several minutes.
This gives the tobacco, tropical fruit, cocoa and oak time to open.
Over Ice
Serve over one large cube in a rocks glass.
Gradual dilution softens the spice and highlights the vanilla, molasses and ripe fruit.
With Ginger Ale
Ginger ale adds freshness while complementing the rum’s brown spice and vanilla.
Serve over ice with a fresh lime wedge.
With Cola
A Cuba Libre remains one of the simplest and most recognisable ways to enjoy aged Cuban rum.
The cola reinforces the caramel and vanilla, while fresh lime cuts through the sweetness.
In a Rum Old Fashioned
Havana Club 7 works particularly well in an Old Fashioned because its cocoa, oak, tobacco and spice remain central to the drink.
Havana Club 7 Rum Old Fashioned
Ingredients
- 50ml Havana Club Martine Rose 7 Year Old
- 5ml sugar syrup
- Two dashes aromatic bitters
- One dash orange bitters
- Orange peel
- Ice
Method
Add the rum, syrup and bitters to a mixing glass filled with ice.
Stir until chilled and lightly diluted.
Strain into a rocks glass over one large ice cube.
Finish with a strip of orange peel.
The restrained recipe keeps the mature Cuban rum at the centre of the cocktail.
Havana Club 7 Ginger
Ingredients
- 50ml Havana Club Martine Rose 7 Year Old
- Chilled ginger ale
- Fresh lime
- Ice
Method
Fill a tall glass with ice and add the rum.
Top with ginger ale and squeeze in a wedge of lime.
Stir gently before serving.
The ginger brings out the rum’s spice, while the lime provides a bright contrast with its molasses and vanilla.
Golden Mojito
A Golden Mojito replaces the lighter white rum traditionally used in a Mojito with aged Havana Club 7.
Ingredients
- 50ml Havana Club Martine Rose 7 Year Old
- Fresh mint
- Fresh lime juice
- Sugar syrup
- Soda water
- Crushed ice
Method
Add the mint, lime juice and sugar syrup to a tall glass.
Press the mint lightly without crushing it excessively.
Add the rum and crushed ice, then top with soda water.
Stir gently and garnish with fresh mint.
The seven-year-old rum gives the drink deeper vanilla, cocoa and oak flavours while preserving the Mojito’s familiar freshness.
A Collectable Havana Club Release
The Martine Rose edition combines a familiar aged rum with packaging created specifically for a limited cultural collaboration.
Its appeal extends across several audiences:
- Havana Club collectors
- Rum enthusiasts
- Fashion collectors
- Martine Rose followers
- Caribbean design enthusiasts
- Music and street-culture fans
- Limited-edition bottle collectors
- Christmas and birthday gifting
- Contemporary home-bar displays
The value of the release lies in the combination of recognisable liquid and a bottle design that exists for a particular moment within Havana Club’s collaboration history.
It can be opened and enjoyed like any other bottle of Havana Club 7, but its presentation also gives it strong display appeal.
Martine Rose Edition vs Standard Havana Club 7
The rum inside both bottles is Havana Club Añejo 7 Años.
The primary difference is the presentation.
Standard Havana Club 7
- Classic Havana Club packaging
- Regularly available core release
- Designed primarily around the rum
- Suitable for everyday sipping and cocktails
Martine Rose Limited Edition
- Collectable fashion-led bottle
- AW25 design references
- Shared Cuban and Jamaican cultural theme
- Limited-edition availability
- Added appeal for design and collaboration collectors
Drinkers focused solely on flavour can choose either bottle. Collectors and Martine Rose followers are more likely to favour the limited edition.
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The Havana Club Places + Faces 10th Anniversary Añejo 7 Year Old Rum celebrates ten years of the London-based lifestyle and streetwear platform.
It combines the established Havana Club 7 liquid with a distinctive collectable presentation.
Havana Club Places + Faces with Playing Cards
The Havana Club Places + Faces Añejo 7 Year Old with Playing Cards adds branded accessories to the limited-edition bottle.
It is particularly suited to collectors interested in fashion, photography and street culture.
Havana Club Burna Boy Limited Edition
The Havana Club Burna Boy Limited Edition Añejo 7 Year Old Rum celebrates the Grammy-winning artist’s connection with music, culture and community.
Its distinctive bottle has become one of the more collectable Havana Club 7 collaborations.
Havana Club Jonathan Raksha Limited Edition
The Havana Club Jonathan Raksha Limited Edition Añejo 7 Year Old Rum brings the jewellery artist’s visual style to the classic Cuban rum.
It provides another example of Havana Club treating the bottle as a platform for contemporary creative expression.
Havana Club Edición Limitada Gold Bottle
The Havana Club Edición Limitada Gold Bottle Añejo 7 Year Old Rum presents the familiar seven-year-old rum in an eye-catching metallic design.
Its gold finish makes it particularly well suited to display and gifting.
Havana Club Limited Edition Gold
The Havana Club Limited Edition Gold Añejo 7 Year Old Rum offers another collectable interpretation of the flagship seven-year-old.
Together, these releases show how one established Cuban rum can be reinterpreted through fashion, music, art and design.
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Drinkers who want to explore beyond the limited-edition seven-year-old bottles can discover the wider Havana Club collection.
Havana Club Selección de Maestros is bottled at 45% ABV and offers deeper cocoa, coffee, sweet tobacco, candied fruit and smoky oak.
For a more mature sipping expression, Havana Club 15 Year Old Icónica Gran Reserva combines extended tropical ageing with dried fruit, coffee, chocolate, tobacco and spice.
Those looking for an accessible cocktail rum can choose Havana Club Especial, while the complete Cuban rum collection includes further bottles from across the island’s rum-making tradition.
Why the Martine Rose Edition Stands Out
The Havana Club x Martine Rose release offers:
- Authentic Havana Club 7 Años Cuban rum
- Seven years of ageing
- Ex-bourbon barrel maturation
- Bottling at 40% ABV
- A full 70cl presentation
- Limited-edition Martine Rose artwork
- Shared Cuban and Jamaican cultural inspiration
- Designs developed alongside the AW25 collection
- Cuban-inspired watercolour tiles
- Handwritten fragments and expressive motifs
- Foil, pearlescent and textured finishes
- Strong connections with music and community
- Collectable appeal beyond the standard bottle
It combines an established aged rum with one of Havana Club’s most distinctive fashion collaborations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is inside the Martine Rose bottle?
It contains Havana Club Añejo 7 Años, the brand’s established seven-year-old Cuban dark rum.
Is the rum different from standard Havana Club 7?
The collaboration focuses on the limited-edition bottle design. The liquid is the classic Havana Club 7 Años expression.
How strong is it?
It is bottled at 40% ABV.
What size is the bottle?
The bottle contains 70cl.
Who is Martine Rose?
Martine Rose is a London-based British-Jamaican fashion designer known for combining music, subculture, community and unconventional tailoring.
What inspired the bottle?
The design draws from Rose’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection, Cuban mosaic architecture, Caribbean identity and music culture.
What does the rum taste like?
It offers aromatic tobacco, tropical fruit, molasses, honey, brown spice, vanilla and dry cocoa.
Can it be enjoyed neat?
Yes. Havana Club 7 was created as a mature Cuban rum suitable for sipping neat or over ice.
Can it be used in cocktails?
Yes. It works particularly well in a Rum Old Fashioned, Cuba Libre, Golden Mojito or rum-and-ginger serve.
Is it collectable?
Its limited-edition Martine Rose design, cultural collaboration and distinctive packaging give it particular appeal to Havana Club, fashion and rum collectors.
Final Thoughts
The Havana Club Martine Rose Limited Edition brings together aged Cuban rum, British-Jamaican design and a shared celebration of Caribbean culture.
Martine Rose’s expressive patterns, handwritten details and watercolour-inspired tiles transform the familiar Havana Club 7 bottle without losing its established identity.
Inside remains the rich seven-year-old rum created by Don José Navarro, matured in ex-bourbon barrels and layered with tobacco, tropical fruit, molasses, vanilla, spice and cocoa.
The bottle can be enjoyed neat, over ice or in a classic rum cocktail, but its distinctive presentation also gives it a place within a wider collection of fashion, music and design-led Havana Club releases.
Shop the Havana Club Martine Rose Limited Edition Añejo 7 Year Old Rum at HTFW.
