Bacardí Gold, Bacardí 8, and Bacardí Reserva Limitada were also awarded International High Quality Trophy awards at the 2010 Monde Selection ’ s World Quality Selections.

Proof66's, a website that acts as an aggregator of professional ratings including the Beverage Testing Institute, as well as scores from other professional rating organizations, places Bacardí Reserva Limitada, Bacardí 1873 Solera, and Bacardí 8 in the First Tier of all rated spirits .</ br >

Emilio Bacardí, Don Facundo's eldest son, was repeatedly imprisoned and was exiled from Cuba for having fought in the rebel army against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence.

In 1912 Emilio Bacardi travelled to Egypt where he purchased a mummy for the future Emilio Bacardí Moreau Municipal Museum in Santiago de Cuba ,( mummy still on display ).

In its 150 year history, Bacardí rum has won upwards of 400 awards for quality and product profile making it the world ’ s most awarded rum.

In his account he described how “ on one side there was a wooden stage with two streamers – Hatuey beer and Bacardí rum – on each end and a Cuban flag in the middle.

Emblems of gold medals and the Spanish Coat of Arms awarded during the formative years of the business appear on every bottle of Bacardí Rum.

Bacardi Limited has made several acquisitions to diversify away from the eponymous Bacardí rum brand.

In his article The Old Man and the Daiquiri, Wayne Curtis tells us how Hemingway ’ s “ home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum .” Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream “… this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots .”

In September 1953, his relatively prosperous family ( he was the son of a Bacardí executive ) sent him to study business management at Columbia University in New York, to take him away from the political turmoil of the time.

Portuondo and other Bacardí family members initially supported the Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro and the broader M-26-7 movement: Bosch personally donated tens of thousands of dollars to the movement, and acted as an intermediary between the revolutionaries and the CIA to assuage the latter's concerns.

Bacardi Limited is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda and has a 16-member board of directors led by the original founder's great-great grandson, Facundo L. Bacardí.

Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Catalan wine merchant, was born in Sitges, Catalonia, ( Spain ) in 1814, and emigrated to Cuba in 1830.

In 1899 US General Leonard Wood appointed Emilio Bacardí Mayor of Santiago de Cuba.

In Santiago, his brother Facundo M. Bacardí continued to manage the company along with Schueg, who began the company's international expansion by opening new bottling plants in Barcelona ( 1910 ) and New York City ( 1915 ).

In 1930 Schueg opened the art deco Bacardi building in Havana and the third generation of the Bacardí family was entering the business.

Facundito Bacardí was known to have invited US-Americans ( still subject to Prohibition ) to " Come to Cuba and bathe in Bacardi rum.

The Bacardí family ( and hence the company ) maintained a fierce opposition to Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba in the 1960s.

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Next to the stage was a bar, at which people crowded, ordering daiquiris and beer, all free .” A sign at the event read: Bacardí rum welcomes the author of The Old Man and the Sea.

Sergio Danguillecourt, a member of the board of directors of Bacardi Ltd and a great-great-grandson of the rum company's founder Don Facund Bacardí i Massó, and his wife Jacqueline Kriz Danguillecourt were on board.

* May 9 – Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer ( b. 1814 )

In 1814 Facundo Bacardí, founder of the international rum brand Bacardi, was born in Sitges before emigrating to Cuba where he set up his company.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.

There shall be deducted from the amount of each payment made pursuant to subsection ( C ) of Section 8, as reimbursement for the expenses incurred by the United States, an amount equal to 5 per centum of such payment.

Determine the sum of the products obtained in item 8 above, for all the States.

( For each State, make all computations set forth in items 1 to 8 above, and then add the results obtained for each State in item 8.

Note, 6 and 8 lock levers don't require holes for contacts.

Fig. 8 gives the dimensions for locating the dog-pin holes.

Wagner Sign Service Inc., Chicago, for example, supplies them in several colors, in heights of 4, 6, 8, 10, and 17 inches.

These cells were thawed at 37-degrees-C for 30 min and were deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing with descending concentrations of glycerol solutions ( 20, 18, 10, 8, 4 and 2% ).

A microsomal de-iodinase with a pH optimum of around 8, and requiring reduced triphosphopyridine nucleotide for activity, has been identified in the thyroid ( Stanbury, 1957 ).

Thus his persistence values for some stem frequencies per meaning are: stem identical in 8 languages, 100% ; ;

Specific requirements for each of various types of enterprises are discussed on pages 8 to 14.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.

A preview party for sponsors of the event and for the artists is set for April 8.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

The tower cleared the plane for take-off at 8 a.m., and Captain Rickards began taxiing toward the runway.

It is the equivalent of 8 per cent for an unmarried investor with more than $16,000 of income to be taxed, or for a married couple with more than $32,000 of taxed income.

Later the Hurok office made it Dec. 8 thru 17, a nice, long booking for the full repertory.