Cuba: Expectation Grows about Next Habano Cigar Festival

Source from:  Prensa Latina  01/17/2013

The famous Cuban Premium cigars will be the kings of the 15th edition of the Habano Festival next February, when the event opens doors for this event, considered the most acclaimed by smokers of the whole world.Despite the campaigns against human consumption of tobacco and the world financial and economic crisis, this hand-made product keeps giving pleasure to millions of people in the world who come to this forum that entertains at least a thousand participants of about 70 countries.

In the smoking salons, elegance prevails, deluxe accessories, and the chats, encounters and tasting sessions combine in a successful way with the different phases of this meeting, as the reunions with drinks, the Habanosommelier Competition and the closing gala where beautiful humidors and other accessories of the tobacco world are auctioned.

Some advanced events include the presentation of a new design for the brand Vegueros, original from the Cuban westernmost province, Pinar del Rio, also the most famous in the island´s tobacco crop.

The director of the twisted tobacco company in that part of the country, Orlando Acosta, said that they work eagerly to exhibit those versions of Vegueros.

For 2013, he said, they will enlarge the range of cigars, and they will show brands with international fame and recognition, such as Trinidad, Montecristo, Vegas Robaina, Hoyo de Monterrey, and Romeo and Julieta.

However, the brand Cohiba continues as the fundamental attractiveness, the first one arisen after 1959 when the Cuban Revolution triumphed and which has many followers in the world.

In Pinar del Rio, they want to manufacture five million cigars, most of which of the Vegueros brand, and 300,000 pieces for the local market, Acosta explained.

The Habano Festival will lapse from February 26 to March 2 in the living rooms of the Havana Convention Center.

At the closing of the meeting the prizes of the year are delivered to brands standing out in the trade, production and communications linked to these tobacco products.

Another of their outstanding attractiveness leads to the visits to the plantations in Pinar del Rio and the dialogue between participants and peasants dedicated to the cultivation of the tobacco leaf.

For many travellers, the fundamental relief is to smoke cigars in their original homeland and to share with other products of world fame as coffee and rum.

The cigars owe their celebrity to the perfect floor combination, climate and experience of the producers. Enditem