Rum Malecon is distilled from sugar cane molasses and produced using the traditional Cuban method. State-of-the-art distillation facilities and trained master distillers are available in Panama for this purpose. Some of the rum varieties mature for more than 25 years in former bourbon barrels, in which the fine, complex aromas, the full-bodied sweetness and the dark amber colour can develop perfectly. The ideal storage conditions in Panama favour the desired intensive exchange of the distillate with the wood of the barrels. "Is there anything left in the barrels?" one wonders when thinking about the high proportion of the "angel's share", the proportion of the alcoholic distillate that evaporates each year or is "shared with the angels". "Yes", say the master distillers, but it takes a lot of experience to blend the fine distillates of a vintage again and again and to fill them into barrels until this incomparable Malecon flavour is achieved in the end.