On April 12, 2018, Casa Havaneza in Portugal celebrated its 154th anniversary, which it proclaims makes it one of the oldest tobacco shops in the...Read More
Some of Habanos S.A.’s Edición Regional releases have no backstory and that’s fine. There are others that are incredibly interesting. One thing I’ve found as...Read More
When I first started getting into cigars, I remember being absolutely fascinated by—maybe even obsessed with—the Edición Regional program offered by Habanos S.A., the Cuban...Read More
On Sept. 8, 2018, more than 500 people attended an event held at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Spain that brought together Habanos S.A.; the Spanish...Read More
Other than the usual and ongoing discussions about supply and what’s coming next, one of the more common conversations I have heard about trends with...Read More
Those passionate about Cuban cigars will often reference specific times when production was particularly good, releases were notably exciting, or things just seemed to be...Read More
All good things must come to an end, and in late 2016 we learned that saying also applied to one of the most popular recent Cuban cigar marcas. Named Edmundo Dantes after the protagonist in one of the French author Alexandre Dumas’ most famous books, “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the Edmundo Dantes brand debuted in […]Read More
There are only a few cigar-related numbers, if any, that make the staff at halfwheel perk up quite like 109. It’s a reference to a vitola, but really more to a specific type of way cigars are capped. Rather than using a normal belicoso head, which typically comes to a point like the end of an […]Read More