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1868
Juanillo Oliver settled in the Caribbean in the mid-19th century, after arriving from his native Mallorca to secure peace in Cuba's first war of independence.
After the war, Juanillo decided to stay on the island and dedicated himself to the tobacco and sugarcane business before finally turning to rum making.
1959
Following the outbreak of the Cuban revolution, the Oliver family decided to move to the Dominican Republic, a country with perfect conditions for producing sugarcane rum.
There, drawing from six generations of old rum-making recipes and inherited methods, his successors would found the Oliver & Oliver house, which opened its doors in Santo Domingo.
1998
When notary Fernando Mora returned from a leisure trip to the Dominican Republic, he hid some gifts in his suitcase: bottles of unlabeled rum.
Since he had brought the bottles into Spain without declaring them at customs, his importer, Luis Caballero SA, decided to give them the trade name Contraband.
