Valdespino launched its Sherries and Brandies in Cuba during the colonial period, and enjoyed great prestige and notable market presence. Around the year 1940 the firm selected and imported a small parcel of casks containing cane rum of the highest purity from a small rum distillery owned by a client to whom the firm supplied Sherry barrels. On their arrival in Jerez these casks of rum were formed into a solera which supplied very old rum for family consumption. The Ron Viejo has an average age of 20 years and has been aged in casks, many over 100 years old, which previously contained Oloroso from Valdespino’s oldest soleras.