Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

I received this final update on the II Edition yesterday from Hong Kong. It is posted here with the explicit permission of Mr Min Ron Nee to further elaborate on the progress of the II Edition and provide details of its production.   Hello Nino, the new MRN book will be over double the size Read more…

  Just like last year when I was in Guangzhou during Christmas, this time it’s again a story where the main actors are Cantonese and the storyline deeply touches my heart. It certainly is much more important than rolled dry tobacco leaves, even while it plays in Havana/Cuba during a cigar festival …. so this Read more…

What is the thing I need most after a trip to Cuba ? A nice and elegant china ashtray for all the cigars I brought along, of course. We received a package from Belgium at the pharmacy and it contained 3 of these beautiful ashtrays which went to Gabriel, Andreas and myself. I can only Read more…

  With Upmann and Partagas factories closed, I was fortunate to arrange a visit on short notice for the group to La Corona factory through a good friend. Happy to greet Inalvis, Omar and Fidel, a great Salomones roller who showed us his skills. Next day it was off to visit Hector Luis and Miguel Read more…

  This event was arranged by the Canadian group and we held it at the Casa particular in Vedado I was staying, Orchid Mansion. Rob very generously brought a box of La Flor de Cano ER UK and a bottle of Irish Teeling single grain whiskey, a very smooth and buttery drink that was perfect Read more…

  Not much I can add to all my previous posts about this great tobacco farmer and long time friend. The Vega has not changed much except for the frame work for a new house that has been erected and some new tables by the creek. We were lucky in having a full bar staffed Read more…

  I have been following Jose Ernesto’s progress with pride and I am always impressed at his energy and vitality as well as the rapid expansion pace of his small enterprise. It’s not that small nowadays and even the newly taken premises are getting small – he plans to expand the building he currently works Read more…