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From February 22nd to the 26th 2010, Cuba will once again host the largest international meeting for Habanos Cuban cigar aficionados.
As every year since 1997 the Habanos Cigar Festival renders tribute to Habanos cigar brands, particularly to Cohiba and Romeo & Julietta. This year will feature an event specially themed for Women. Attendees will have the chance to enjoy new vitolas that Habanos S.A. will be launching to the world market throughout 2010 and to experience first hand the centuries old secrets of deep-rooted Cuban cigar making traditions.
Habanos S.A invites all Cuban…
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Our writer from Havana has sent us this information regarding the Partagas Meeting of Customers and Friends that will be held in Havana from November 16th to the 19th.
Monday November 16th - WELCOME
Time: 8:00 pm
Price: 50.00 CUC
Dinner-Buffet and Cocktails
Tasting of three Habanos made especially for the event.
Show awards and acknowledgments of special participants
Tuesday November 17th - DAY AT THE BEACH
Departure from Partagás and Hotels 9:00 am
Price: 75.00 CUC
Water Sports, Dancing, games, cocktails, tasting of three special Habanos and…
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Larry Luxner | Cuba News
As President Barack Obama moves to ease restrictions on trade with Cuba, cigar lovers are savoring the prospect of legally lighting up a smoke that has long required a black-market connection and a willingness to flout the law. Bloomberg reported in mid-June. “There’s a mystique about a Cuban,” said John Anderson, owner of W. Curtis Draper Tobacconist Inc., a cigar shop in Washington. “Cuban tobacco has become the forbidden fruit.”
The possible end to the 47-year U.S. embargo on Cuba trade has intensified a legal and lobbying fight between cigar manufacturers…
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Peter Coyote | San Francisco Chronicle
Today I’m visiting El Laguito, the Cohiba factory where only Castro’s own cigars and his gifts for diplomats and heads of state were once made.
The factory is in a lovely pale-yellow mansion, formerly owned by a sugar magnate, has marble floors, stained glass windows, high ceilings and perfectly cared for grounds.
In the interior office of the director, Miguel Brown Vaillaint, a muscular, relaxed, black man of obvious confidence and physical strength, smiles and insists that we have a coffee together before making the tour. Cuban…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The Habanos S.A. Corporation and Tabacuba Business Group present the 11th Habanos Cuban cigar festival to be held in Havana Cuba from February 23 through the 27th 2009.
The Havana Convention Center will become the international meeting place for Habanos distributors, specialists and lovers of famous Cuban cigars of numerous brands.
This 11th annual Habanos Festival will feature:
—Exclusive Habanos Distributors
—La Casa del Habano” Managers from all over the world
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If you love Cuban Black Beans, Chili Cubano and other authentic recipes from Old Havana, you’ll love what Old Havana Foods offers at it’s newly launched website at Old Havana Foods.
Just in time for the ‘Big Game’ this weekend, North American food lovers can enjoy Cuban Black Beans, Chili Cubano and other great authentic Cuban food recipes from Old Havana. The people at Old Havana Foods say they’ve found a way to recreate the Cuban food experience. “If we can’t go to the island,” says company founder Julian Eduardo Crews,…
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By Gregory Mottola | Cigar Aficionado
As the new year begins, the last of the Habanos regional edition cigars have shipped to their appointed countries. Some nations received their shipments months ago while others still eagerly await.
The regional edition program began in 2005, when a handful of European countries and distributors contracted with Habanos S.A., the global distributor for Cuban cigars, to create unique sizes of smaller Cuban brands. The campaign was so successful that more countries wanted in. This year, 17 regional edition cigars were created for 12 regions, as opposed to last year’s…
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The Havana Journal has obtained a copy of the Notice of Opposition filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office whereby Habanos SA, a Cuba based corporation, has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Kansas City Missouri based Xikar Inc for using the word “Havana” and the term “Havana Collection” to describe Xikar cigar lighters and that such use is a violation of Habanos SA trademark.
As you read through the fifty three points of interest listed below, you will find odd legal claims such as #15 where the document claims that use of the word Havana should be…
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By Nick Foulkes | NEWSWEEK (edited for clarity)
In the VIP tasting room of the Partagas factory, opposite the Cuban capitol building, the air was blue with fragrant smoke as a dozen people (including the director of the Partagas factory, a feisty woman named Hilda Barros, her staff and the board of directors of Britain’s Cuban cigar monopoly Hunters & Frankau) sampled a new cigar called the Gloria Cubana “Gloriosos”.
The cigar, a long robusto, was outstanding. It was beautiful to look at and the glossy café au lait sheen of the wrapper gave way to an even burn…
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These are the civil penalties released by OFAC today for violations of buying Cuban cigars on the Internet
One individual was assessed a penalty totaling $4,351.50 for dealing in property in which Cuba or a Cuban national had an interest: On or about July 26, 2003, August 20, 2003, October 31, 2003, May 3, 2004, June 4, 2004 and July 3, 2004, the individual purchased Cuban-origin cigars offered for sale on the Internet. The individual did not voluntarily disclose this matter to OFAC.
One individual was assessed a penalty totaling $3,250 for dealing in property in which Cuba has an…
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