The participants to the VI Habanos Festival passed a great deal of Thursday morning learning how to roll a Habano Robusto. The master cigar maker José Castelar Cairo-Cueto, who holds the Guinness record for the largest cigar in the world, imparted the Master Lesson that was ranked successful by the...
Portugal is participating for the first time at the Commercial Fair and, during this VI edition of the Habanos Festival, she does so by launching a new brand: Montecristo Deleggend. Within the exhibition framework, Habanos talks to Rui Graça – who is responsible for Montecristo textile branch – about the...
A blue smoky cloud filled the room where the preliminary to the Whisky and Cigar Challenge Contest was developing. Meanwhile, in the anteroom to the International Habanosommelier Contest, reporters were seeking the flavour of an exclusive for their newspapers. Somebody had to go to the corridors to take a pure...
For more than thirty years, no new format has been created in its size range, but it was worthwhile waiting. The name EDMUNDO, the main character of the novel after which the brand was named, is chosen for the cigar that Habanos S.A. hopes will shortly play the lead within...
Habanos S.A. presents three new vitolas within the San Cristóbal de la Habana usual size range which will undoubtedly please the customer’s wishes all in a beautiful case made to commemorate the Fifth anniversary of the brand. San Cristóbal de la Habana was the original name of Havana, Cuba’s capital...
Habanos S.A. presents the H. Upmann Humidor which is the result of the skilled hands of Cuban craftsmen to commemorate the 160 anniversary of the brand. Herman Upmann was a banker from Germany who so loved Cuban cigars that he moved to Havana in 1844 and set up as both...
A federal judge has ruled in favor of Cubatabaco, the Cuban cigar company, in a trademark dispute over the US rights to Cohiba, the cigar brand that obtained international fame as the favorite of Cuban President Fidel Castro. In New York, the judge Robert W. Sweet Jr., of the United...
Ivo Dvorak, from the Czech Republic, was conferred the first award at the International Habanasommelier Contest, after undertaking a theoretical test and the selection rituals, lighting, descriptive tasting and brotherhood with diverse drinks. Dressed in his sommelier suit, Dvorak made a theoretical test, and proposed the brotherhood between an Hoyos...
Six years of Festival occurrence have gradually marked the course of Habanos S.A. strategies to develop its goods. Javier Terrés de Ercilla, Vice-President of Development, belongs to the last list of those believing that the astonishment capacity is what can never be lost. Habanos: What is your assessment of the...
An afternoon full of surprises crowned the VI Habanos Festival closing, when the awards of the International Habanosommelier Contest and the Commercial Fair were conferred. Presided by Oscar Basulto Torres, Co-president, and Habanos S.A. vice-presidents, the event had Simon Chase, of Hunters and Frankau Company, on the dais, who made...
