6 Things You Should Know About Cuban Cigars

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6 Things You Should Know About Cuban Cigars
6 Things You Should Know About Cuban Cigars
Cuban cigars are wrapped in mystique. Soon
travellers will be able to bring back 100 worth
of the famed cigars. Here are some facts you
should know.
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Cuban cigars are expensive, even in Cuba.
As NPR's Tom Gjelten tweeted, the new permission
to bring back 100 worth of tobacco (or alcohol)
allows you at the most four good cigars. Tom says
he hasn't been back to Cuba for six years, but
the last time he was there, a single Cohiba or
Uppman "set you back at least 25."
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Cuban cigar companies have readers.
Cuba expert Ada Ferrer says cigar factories were
known for having "lectores," or readers, who
would read aloud as the workers rolled the
cigars. She's curious to know if the factories
still have these readers, and she is especially
curious to know what exactly they read
aloud. Havana-based blogger Orlando Luis Pardo
Lazo tells us today that, yes, they still have
readers.
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Cuban cigars may not be the best anymore.
At least according to Susan Kaufman Purcell,
director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy at
the University of Miami, who says
"Cuba no longer makes the best cigars. Within
Latin America, cigar smokers surveyed say that
cigars made in the Dominican Republic, Honduras
and Nicaragua are much better. It's not so much
that the quality of Cuban cigars has
deteriorated it's more that cigar making in
these three countries and elsewhere in the world
has significantly improved."
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Fidel Castro's favourite Cuban cigars were
Cohibas, but he quit smoking decades ago.
In 1997, The New York Times reported
"In fact, Cohibas were initially produced seven
years after the 1959 Cuban revolution brought Mr.
Castro to power. According to a history published
by the company early this year, a
cigarmaker-turned-soldier began rolling cigars
for a friend who was one of Mr. Castro's
bodyguards. The bodyguard soon began sharing the
cigars with his boss, who loved their flavor and
asked for more.
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You can identify a fake Cuban cigar by the
packaging.
Cigar Aficionado says pay close attention
"The bottom of a Cuban cigar box tells a more
complete story. There you'll see the words
Habanos S.A., Hecho En Cuba, and (if the cigar is
handmade, as Cuba's best are) Totalmente a Mano.
Below that will be a code for the factory in
which the cigars were made, and a date stamp
showing when the cigars were put in the box.
Counterfeits are often missing some of these
details. We've seen typos, bogus fonts, missing
stamps, and various other discrepancies. All the
markings should be on a real smokebe cautious of
any missing (or misspelled markings)."
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Cuban cigar prices
If you want the real thing, youre going to have
to pay for it. At an auction in London in 2014, a
lot of 50 Cuban cigars from 1992 went for 41,463
USD.
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