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Oliver & Oliver is at home in the heart of the Caribbean. Juanillo Oliver, who emigrated from Spain and Mallorca, is responsible for the founding. He tried his luck in Cuba growing sugar cane and tobacco. The family quickly earned an excellent reputation for their cigars and established factories for the production of sugar. From there it was only a small step to producing our own rum. The Cubaney brand was created during that heyday, but fate wasn't all good for the Oliver family. The estate and lands were destroyed during the fights for independence at the end of the 19th century. For around 50 years, people gave up sugar cane and rum and devoted themselves to tobacco products and agriculture. By the mid-20th century, the revolution itself made this endeavor all but impossible. Most of the family members left the country and settled elsewhere. Only after the situation in Cuba improved in the late 1980s did a member of the younger generation return to the roots and set about breathing new life into Oliver & Oliver. He studied the old recipes and production methods and decided to make a new start in the Dominican Republic. Since the 1990s, rum production has been carried out on Dominican soil using tried-and-tested methods, with master distillers and employees preferably coming from Cuba. They bought 100,000 liters of rum and distillates aged for 15 years and used them as a basis for their own experiments under the name Casa Oliver. High-quality blended rum full of meaning and with a wide variety of characteristics became the company's trademark. In addition, the bottler Oliver y Oliver Inc. entered the rum business in a big way.