{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Bacardi was founded in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 by Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Spanish-born wine merchant who refined and column-distilled molasses to create the first commercially viable light rum. The bat in the brand mark comes from the fruit bats that lived in the rafters of the original distillery and which Catalan tradition treats as a symbol of good luck."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"The family was forced into exile by the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Production shifted to Puerto Rico and Mexico, and the corporate headquarters to Bermuda, where Bacardi Limited remains the largest privately held spirits company in the world. Carta Blanca (the classic white), Añejo Cuatro, Reserva Ocho, and Reserva Diez anchor the Caribbean rum category. The line that built the modern rum cocktail."}]}]}