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and PlansLast year in Houston, Texas, the 75th jubilee exhibition of the American RTDA association was held. This time round more than 200 participants had an opportunity to present their products and to take part in seminars by leading experts in marketing and merchandizing. It was the association's last exhibition to be held under the RTDA banner. The 76th event will be held under the aegis of the IPCPR (International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association). Joe Rowe, the director of the association, talked to us about the current situation at the association and his hopes and plans for its future. |
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| NewsFebruary Syndrome Last week of February is a sacred time for the lovers of the Cuban cigars. Time to pack the shorts, T-shirts, and tuxedos into the suitcases and head for places that are closer to the equator, to the warm and sunny Island of Freedom. The International Cuban Cigar Festival takes place in Havana this time every year. This one was the tenth anniversary festival and probably that is why it brought together the record number of participants: about one thousand eight hundred people from seventy-five countries. |
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| NewsProCigar Festival Slightly over 120 people from all over the world visited four cigar factories, two tobacco plantations, and smoked an unknown number of the best Dominican cigars in a matter of three days. Not to mention the Presidente beer and the Brugal rum. All this took place in the heart of the Dominican plantations that is the city of Santiago-de-los-Cabalieros, and was called the First Dominican Cigar Festival. |
| NewsIn the Wake of Habanos It's not often that the top managers of Habanos S.A., the supplier of Cuban cigars worldwide, visit Russia. This time, two vice presidents came to Moscow on a business trip - Cuban Manuel Garcia, and Spaniard Havier Terres. They dropped into our editorial office. |
| NewsMen & their cigars It was six years ago when we first came to Havana as delegates of the International Cigar Festival. Obviously, everything was new to us, nobody knew us, and the name of the magazine meant nothing to the international cigar community. |
| Cigar StudiesDefects and Effects Just like any other hand-made product, a cigar may have defects. They can be of different origin. If the soil of the tobacco plantation has been poorly prepared or inappropriately fertilized, we will invariably feel that in the end product. Due to careless rolling, a cigar may have poor draft. Inappropriate storage conditions may result in bug damage or mildew. Spots may appear on wrappers during drying, and cracks, during packing and transportation. Improper fermentation affects organoleptic properties. |
| Cigar StoryA Man Without a Case Kusturitsa does not look like a banker. It is not his role: even in the childhood, he wanted to become a janitor, not a millionaire. It was the romanticism of the time: a boy from Sarajevo uptown saw himself with a broom in the morning streets of his not so clean town. He was neither an excellent student, nor an underachiever. He was a rowdy boy, just like anybody else, another one of the motley gang of the Yugoslavian street urchins. |
| Cigar StoryI Wish Dumas When we describe a Cohiba cigar, we say it is softer than Montecristo. We speak about a Partagas cigar and say that it is stronger than Montecristo. Menendez and Garcia created a reference point. |
| Cigar studiesMacanudo: Basic Instinct Despite numerous and rather significant changes that have been made to the Macanudo cigars in the course of their history, loyalty to traditions remains the fundamental principle of this brand. This contradictory combination seems almost unlikely; but looking at the booming sales of these cigars and speaking of the customers' affection and trust, you start believing in the impossible, whether you want it or not. |
| Cigar studiesAshton, Sir! The flavor of the mixture is pleasant—the smoky flavor of Latakia and light rum undertones, non-alcoholic, but rather confectionary, are unmistakably guessed; somewhat winy Virginia tones are rather distinctly felt. |
| TastingRussian Choice This degustation offers the finest cigars from Russia's largest distributors, made in Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. A selection from Russia's aficionados. |
| TastingLimited Edition To help Havana-lovers to find their way around non-standard cigars and avoid counterfeits, Cigar Clan is publishing a list of all Edicion Limitada cigars, starting from 2000. |
| PipesUnder the Linden |
| Story with a PipeLittle Mary's Journalists wrote about her: “If the entire world gathered in one huge and dark room, and a portrait of a person whom everybody would recognize was to appear on the screen, whose portrait would that be? That of Woodrow Wilson? Lloyd George? The Kaiser? Of course, not. It would be a portrait of Mary Pickford, a famous American, the most popular woman in the world, the greatest citizen of the planet”. |
| Cigar CompanionSweet Happiness After the Moors conquered the Iberian peninsula, distillation technology and equipment spread north, primarily to France and further across all of Western Europe, where liqueurs as we know them today were first created. |
| Life in Cigar styleThe Game is On “I look for purity in the artisans that I work with. They also have to be creative and self-motivated. But, most of all, they have to be deadline-oriented. I consider myself to be lucky to have found kindred souls in each and every one of them. They are all very beautiful people.” |
| Life in the cigar styleExporting Proletarian Style The first examples of agit-prop porcelain were fairly laconic: black propaganda slogans on a snow-white background. But the design soon became more colorful and ornate. |
| Life in the cigar styleMetro: City under the Ground Someone who has never been in the Moscow metro might be outraged or at least very surprised by the comparison with a museum. Metro is viewed by most people of planet Earth as a functional means of transportation, and getting below the surface is far from being perceived as a door to esthetic pleasure. Possibly, Moscow metro would face the same fate, if it were constructed in the early 20th century, when its first design was developed. However, this ambitious idea wasn't materialized until the early 1930s, when the Communist Party and the Soviet government charged the architects with tasks that didn't have much to do with pure utility. |
| Life in the cigar styleBig Smoke Festival The most influential cigar event in Russia. |
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