{"id":5498,"date":"2014-03-24T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2014-03-24T23:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:46:34","slug":"an-evening-with-didier-houvenaghel-in-the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/an-evening-with-didier-houvenaghel-in-the-village\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening With Didier Houvenaghel In The Village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was missing this Cuban Spanish back & forth banter now for almost 2 weeks and Didier Houvenaghel, the Belgian-Singaporean-Nicaraguan cigar-maker brought it back to me.<\/span><\/p>\n He is a good socio and enjoys the Cuban language and humour just like me.<\/span><\/p>\n Right here in the village, at Massimo’s, we had an evening of good cigars, discussions about tobacco, harvest quality and heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n Didier has been on a 4 week tour of Europe, the US and central America and his last few days are spent here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n Today at our Italian restaurant for a private dinner with some 10 good friends and tomorrow he will attend the regular pharmacy cigar meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n He’s been with us many times now and is among friends here – search for all my posts on him.<\/p>\n Let’s talk about tonight now :<\/span><\/p>\n The first cigar was a La Ley Mareva, an old Cuban Marca that Didier has resurrected and tries to reproduce in its vintage blend, with 4 different countries in its content, Ecuador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Have I missed a country ?? Yes, you might call me an old man.<\/span><\/p>\n I tend to forget and besides, what do I know about cigars….<\/span><\/p>\n A spicy, well balanced Mareva that I liked a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n We then had a Petit Salomones of his “house” brand, the Nicarao, an in your face Nicaraguan, a cigar and a mature tobacco blend I love and enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n In between were hours of conversation, snippets from the Festival, inside information on Nicaragua, Cuba, production, export and quality matters.<\/span><\/p>\n Very relaxing and it took me back to Cuba as I can relate much better in Spanish with Didier about all that, him having studied Agriculture and Tobacco growing at Pinar del Rio University for 3 years and being familiar with all the names, places and activities there.<\/span><\/p>\n I am having my regular Cologne meeting tomorrow with Frank but will make sure to be back in time for a nightcap or three with Didier at the pharmacy. <\/span><\/p>\n Especially as Thorsten Wolfertz will be along – what better duo of NC specialists around … Nino \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was missing this Cuban Spanish back & forth banter now for almost 2 weeks and Didier Houvenaghel, the Belgian-Singaporean-Nicaraguan cigar-maker brought it back to me. He is a good socio and enjoys the Cuban language and humour just like me. Right here in the village, at Massimo’s, we had an evening of good Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,1],"tags":[27,1177,21,73,991,98,288,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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