After several years of postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cigar festivals are beginning to come back, and you can now register to attend the Puro Sabor Festival in Nicaragua, which happens Jan. 23-27, 2023.
As in previous years, the festival includes visits to several tobacco farms and cigar factories, with lunches often held on the farms or in nearby curing barns. Then, nightly dinners celebrate not just cigars and the people who produce them, but several elements of Nicaraguan cultural heritage.
After attendees arrive in the capitol city of Managua, they are taken to the colonial city of Granada for the festival’s first day. They will then be driven to Estelí for a series of visits to many of the most well-known cigar producers in the country. Attendees have multiple opportunities both to interact with their favorite cigar makers and see the process of a cigar from a seed in the soil to the finished product.
This year’s festival is priced at $2,500 for a single registration and $4,600 for a double registration, which includes hotels, meals, transportation between festival events, a guayabera, t-shirt, a commemorative box of cigars, souvenirs and daily cigars during visits to facilities and the nightly dinners. It does not include airfare.
The Puro Sabor Festival is put on by the Cámara Nicaragüense de Tabacaleros (Nicaragua Tobacco Chamber), an organization made up of approximately 26 cigar manufacturers in the country.