Cuba Report
The Year of the Cuban Cigar
In 2012, Cuban cigars rated better in Cigar Aficionado magazine than at any time since the early 1990s.
Posted: May 8, 2013 By Gordon Mott
Cigar Aficionado's Continuing Habanos Festival Coverage
Cigar Aficionado is back from Havana. Our editors were in Cuba last week to cover the 15th annual Festival del Habano, or Habanos Festival, where...more
Posted: March 8, 2013 By CA Staff
A Day at the La Corona Factory
The long journey a tobacco leaf takes through a Cuban cigar factory, from front door to cigar box
Posted: February 4, 2013 By Gordon Mott
Buying At The Source
Purchasing Cuban cigars in Havana can mean good bargains, especially when you stick to the older brands.
Posted: September 20, 2012 By David Savona
Cuba Throws a Party for Romeo y Julieta
How a grape-growing region in the south of France unites a coalition of small winemakers and craft distillers with some of the biggest players in the spirits firmament to make the most renowned brandy on the globe
Posted: June 1, 2012 By Gordon Mott / David Savona
By the Numbers
During the last 20 years, Cuba’s cigars have both dominated and been dominated in Cigar Aficionado’s tastings by the rest of the cigar world, but in 2011, they reached new heights
Posted: April 1, 2012 By Gordon Mott
Cigar Aficionado Reports from Cuba's Habanos Festival
Our editors are in Cuba to cover the 14th annual Festival del Habano, or Habanos Festival, where they will sample the latest in Cuban cigars, meet...more
Posted: March 5, 2012 By CA Staff
Exclusive Habanos
Limited and Regional Editions are expanding the global portfolio of Habanos S.A.
Posted: February 1, 2012 By Gordon Mott
The Grandson Also Rises
Hirochi Robaina, grandson of the late Alejandro Robaina, is a young Cuban farmer on a mission
Posted: December 1, 2011 By David Savona
Avoiding Counterfeit Cubans
Smoking a Cuban can be great, but lighting up a fake is the pits.
Posted: October 1, 2011 By David Savona
The Man Behind the Behike
After a career that began in the Habanos S.A. warehouses, Jorge Luís Fernández Maique has risen to share the copresidency of the joint Spanish-Cuban cigar company
Posted: August 1, 2011 By Gordon Mott
Cuba’s Lavish Cigar Party
The Thirteenth Habanos Festival Featured the Debut of Several New Cigars
Posted: June 1, 2011 By David Savona
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