Tag: Cuba
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On this very day I enjoyed my second Cohiba Behike 56
A generous friend presented me with two samples of the iconic Cohiba Behike (56 gauge) a week ago. Yesterday I began planning the situation in which to light one of them. Here is just a frozen moment during the long process. I shall be reporting in more detail soon.
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To re-live the Gilded Age a century later / Notes on a Cigar from La Gloria Cubana
In our modern world we tend to focus on the future. Feeling we have arrived today’s moment, which could be seen as a physical reality, we look ahead, inventing, thinking, constructing and planning. Thus we invest a great amount of energy in letting the future be manifested today. Those who do that are praised as…
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Hirochi Robaina and Sila Blume
The culture I was born into was the Latino-Caribbean. Documents show that I reached this planet by way of Spanish Harlem to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother. In my blood I carry in part the unity of a Chinese slave and his African slave wife. During my quarter of a century in…
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Hirochi Robaina launches his ‘HR’ Cigars in the USA
Hirochi Robaina is the grandson of legendary farmer Alejandro Robaina (March 1919 – April 2010), who is known for his contribution to the Cigar Universe through the success of his famous farm, Cuchillas de Barbacoa, in San Luis, Pinar del Río. Patrick Lagreid writes in Halfwheel: “For fans of Cuban cigars, there are cigar superstars.…
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In February 2015 every Smoke leads to Cuba / XVII Habanos Festival
It is just last year that I found out for the first time about the Festival of Cigars that takes place in La Habana, Cuba every year. A month ago I was invited in Toronto to attend the next one. Today my registration for the XVII Habano Festival was approved. Soon I will be smoking Cubans in…
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Fine Tobacco Calender 2015
January 14 – 17 4to Festival del Tabaco Puro Sabor Nicaragua Nicaraguan Cigar Festival January 23 Nebraska Cigar Festival Lincoln, Nebraska Nebraska Cigar Festival February 15 – 20 Procigar Festival Dominican Republic ProCigar February 22 – 27 XVII Festival Habano La Habana, Cuba Habanos August 22 The Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival Broomfield, CO Rocky Mountain…
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José Orlando Padrón
You cannot keep good people down. Perhaps kill them, but not keep them down. And if they manage to complete some major steps in life, even if they are killed, they could easily live beyond their physical lives. Demaso Padrón left the Canary Islands towards the middle of the 1800’s, emigrating to Cuba. It was customary…
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Instead of a Cuban Flag
If you by any chance wish to enter a home or a locality and do not wish to discard of your cigar, but do not know where to leave it until you walk out again, a very practical spot to keep it for the time being is an empty flag pole holder.
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Honouring Simón Bolívar
It has been a Cuban tradition in gratitude to honour Simón Bolívar for his role in providing liberty and independence from Spain to Latin-American countries.
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