Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  It’s been five days since I arrived back home from yet another Havana – Festival Del Habano trip and as always I’ve had to air my lungs and cure the usual stubborn cough and running nose souvenir – funny how everybody gets a cold in Havana …. Before I start posting in detail on Read more…

It’s that time of the year again – Festival time, serious cigar time with friends and buddies from all over the world. It will be stress, but positive and rewarding stress being among a good group of friends. Once again I have planned a few interesting events for the Portmann group there and I look Read more…

  Last December, Min Ron Nee, the author and collector from Hong Kong, was so kind as to send me a selection of rare vintage cigars for a tasting with friends. These cigars are : 1950’s C.E. Beck Albas, 1950’s Maria Guerrero Favoritas en Cedro, 1960’s Partagas Seleccion de Luxe cabinet made for UK merchant Read more…

  I received this cigar last week. Having read both positive and negative opinions about it, I decided to smoke it at yesterday’s pharmacy cigar evening. Supposedly these cigars – both the RyJ and the Montecristo Añejado line – were rolled in 2008 and then left to age in Havana to be released this year. Read more…

  The shock came the day before the joy of picking up the Ramon Allones Perfectos humidor – the Swiss Franc had become 20% more expensive. Which means also a shock to my friend Urs and his cigar business. From 1,65 CHF when shopping in Switzerland was still attractive to 1,20 CHF when it became Read more…

  This trip was truly unique in that we spent most of the time involved in our “Cuban life”, both Yannick and me having many great and long-time friends in many areas of the Cuban society, mostly the tobacco area but also other segments of everyday life on the island. This is a pictorial gallery Read more…

  A tale of two paladares in Havana. I was searching for a new place to host the Portmann dinner in February. My first idea was to leave it at Ivan Justo as the place is spectacular in every sense, the food, the ambience, the service, the experience. But having a few of our band Read more…