Events & Festivals

Hallo from Dortmund. A very warm Dortmund. The world’s largest tobacco trade show kickoffs today in northwest Germany and for the seventh year in a row,…

Another Habanos festival is in the books and as has been the case in the past, I have some random observations and thoughts not just…

My final full day in Cuba started pretty much the same as the rest of my stay, with me getting up early—in this case, around…

Unlike the three days before this, I was woken up not by my phone alarm, but by some dogs howling close by. View this post…

The third day I spent in Havana, Cuba covering the Festival del Habano XX started much like the proceeding ones, with breakfast and some work…

While it was not quite as early a start on Tuesday, I was still up by 7 a.m. to have some breakfast and do a…

Lots of rain, lots of people. Those were the themes of the 2018 Procigar Festival in the Dominican Republic. No one was happy about the…

It turned out my first full day in Cuba was full of events, but first, a few notes on the reason I am in the…

As I have for the past two years, I will be covering the Festival de Habano XX in Havana, Cuba over the next six days. My…

After an exhausting day at the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, I was hoping to spend more time at the hotel than I ultimately did, which…

“We don’t post pictures from this, this is for us,” said Jamilet Calviño of Cigar Snob, shortly before our tour started. Us referring to her and…