Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

Ich möchte auf ein interessantes Thema auf dem Montehiba Blog meines Freundes Robert aufmerksam machen wo es möglich ist Fragen an Min Ron Nee zu richten. I’d like to point out to an interesting Thread on my friend’s Robert Montehiba’s blog where you can send in questions to Min Ron Nee. Nino Wow ich kann Read more…

I have stopped posting about this “natural” and ritual cigar evening session at the local village pharmacy every 13 days. It is repetitive …. in a good way 🙂 What can I say – it’s 500 yards from me, I attend it and it is always the same …  Good friends, good cigars, good drinks Read more…

Frank and I met again halfway in Cologne at Peter Heinrich’s to smoke some cigars that we didn’t have the time to smoke in Havana … crazy as it sounds. We had received an unbanded Cohiba Majestuoso as well as a banded Cohiba Medio Siglo, the new releases at the Festival and we wanted to Read more…

The only “official” event besides the Partagas Cocktail reception that we attended during the Festival and a crowning farewell party to our week in Havana. So great to meet good friends there in an informal gathering and an excellent atmosphere at the rooftop terrace of this famed Paladar. Truly stellar custom rolled cigars passed by Read more…

It is a sign of the changes to come in an evolving political and commercial process that people from the non-Cuban cigar industry start flocking to Cuba. And what better opportunity to see the Cuban cigar scene than being in Havana during the Festival. Keith had suggested we meet at the Nacional’s historical bar for Read more…

I had taken Frank already twice to the tobacco farms, Viñales and Pinar del Rio so I thought I’d show him a different part of Cuba this time. Give Frank a good cigar, some rum and a nice cannon or machine gun and he is a happy camper. So what better place than Bay of Read more…

Every time I am in Cuba, a visit to Hector Luis’ farm and lunch there with his family and staff is a must-do and much awaited event for me. He had just collected most of this year’s harvest, and a good one it was he told me. 120.000 plants, half shade and half sun grown. Read more…