Cuba has a new Montecristo size for the global duty-free market, the Montecristo Fragata. The cigar is a parejo measuring 5 1/2 inches long by 54 ring gauge. If those dimensions sound familiar, it’s because they are shared by the popular Partagás Serie E No. 2, as well as more limited cigars such as the Bolivar Soberano Edición Limitada 2018 and the Punch Duke, a Regional Edition made for Mexico
ecord Habanos Revenues, Shrinking Physical Supply, China’s Influence and the Unresolved Question of Who Controls Half of the World’s Most Famous Cigar Company Record Habanos Revenues, Shrinking Physical Supply, China’s Influence and the Unresolved Question of Who Controls Half of the World’s Most Famous Cigar Company Text: Philip G. Wynne There are few agricultural products in the world whose reputation is so inseparable from geography as Cuban tobacco. For generations,
With Chinese-Cambodian tycoon Chen Zhi as an investor, Cohibas became ultra-luxury symbols — then things came crashing down for the billionaire From his perch in the corner, fumes wisping up past his frameless glasses, Mitchell Orchant puffs contentedly on an imposing Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure No 3 as he surveys his compact kingdom. Three decades ago he founded the C.Gars chain of tobacconists, and this is his flagship store in
Partagás is one of the oldest cigar brands in existence, established in Havana in 1845. Today, the name is used by two separate and competing entities: one produced in Cuba for the state-owned tobacco company Habanos S.A., and the other, made without Cuban tobacco, produced in the Dominican Republic for General Cigar Company, a subsidiary of Swedish Match. History The Catalan Don Jaume Partagás i Ravell (Arenys de Mar, 1816
n 2010, after more than 40 successful years of Cohiba cigars, this novelty appeared, considered by experts as an excellent proposal for the market. Since the beginning of that year, it gradually began to spread and be marketed around the world. Behike was the fourth line of the famous Cohiba brand (Classic, 1492, Maduro and Behike), the most exclusive Cuban cigar of all times. It is now the centerpiece of