Cuban cigars commemorating the Chinese lunar new year, already available in the Asia Pacific and United Kingdom, will be released in Switzerland on 21 October. The limited edition Partagas Cedros are the sixth Cuban cigar to celebrate this. They follow the Cohiba Siglo de Oro (year of the rabbit), Hoyo de Monterrey Primaveras (ox), H.…

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Cuban customs’ crackdown has thwarted three illegal attempts to export large amounts of cigars this month. Secure Border, the Cuban island’s campaign to eliminate smuggling cigars, have reported a trio of confiscations at the Jose Martin International airport in Havana. The first saw 4,400 loose cigars with bands intercepted. This was followed by 4,500 counterfeit…

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Dominique London and Tang Tobacco will collaborate for the first time to open a La Casa del Habano on Pall Mall in St James’s in London, with a second location in central Tokyo to follow. This will become Dominique London’s flagship location in the historic centre of London’s cigar trade, with two walk-in humidors designed…

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Cigar collectors will be delighted by the debut of the Habanos Vintage programme, which will highlight aged lines across several brands. The Trinidad 55th Anniversary humidor will be limited to 1,000 numbered units, containing 55 aged Trinidad Fundadores, comprising 945 S.T.Dupont editions and 55 from French fashion designer Charaf Tajer. Fundadores, the very first commercial…

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Cigar connaisseurs will no longer be able to enjoy the expressive aesthetics packaging on Cuban cigars next year. Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgium’s health minister, has ordered for plain packaging legislation to be extended to cigars. This will follow the nation’s law to make cigarettes, hookah and rolling tobacco appear less visually appealing. Cigar bands, which have…

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The long wait is over for the repackaged Trinidad cigars to reach British shores, more than a year since the announcement of the return of the Robusto Extra. The classic Cuban cigar, measuring 155mm with a 50mm gauge ring, was originally introduced in 2004 but was discontinued in 2012. Their reappearance was initially a 2021…

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Today’s appearance of the Diplomaticos Legendario RE Italy 2023, commissioned by Diadema S.p.A., comes in a limited series of 10,000 numbered boxes of 10 elegant cigars. Boosting a classic Cuban Churchill vitola, with a Julieta No.2 factory name, measures 178mm with a 47 ring gauge that has identical dimensions to the famous Romeo y Julieta…

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The first new cigar of the year to release a specific launch date will see a party for the Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo de San Luis. The Alexander Kunz Theatre in Saarbrucken, Germany, will reveal the latest regular production Hoyo de Monterrey cigar on 12 November. Tickets are available via kunz-theatre.de. This new Hoyo…

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Tabacuba president Marino Murillo declared on his whistlestop tour of Cuba that his target is for 70 million cigars to be exported in 2025. He made the announcement during his tour of the Pinar del Rio province, which is the heartland of the Caribbean island’s tobacco production. This area includes Vuelta Abajo, which is widely…

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The Diplomaticos Genios Regional Edition Phoenicia was presented at the XXVth Festival del Habano today, prior to its release in Africa and the Middle East. Diplomaticos Genios, a regional edition, is a grand robusto measuring 130mm with a ring gauge of 52. It comes in cabinet boxes of 50 cigars, with only 4,000 boxes released.…

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