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Cuban Tobacco Industry Renews Proposals Every Year

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TabacoThe Cuban tobacco industry renews every year its proposals for the international market, above all in habanos, Premium cigars (hand-rolled) claiming today the attention of experts all over the world.
 
Such criteria was repeated this week at the Convention Center of Havana, opinions that agree in giving this island's cigars the crown of the best of their type worldwide.
 
Precisely, during the realization of the 20th Habano Festival that ends next Friday, March 2) a series of meetings and dialogues among businesspeople and professionals of the sector insist on those opinions.
 
This occurs despite the barriers of the United States against this island that for some, represent a total blockade to trade, worsened recently after more than half a century.
 
The proof of these opinions is found among the two thousand attendants from 70 countries to this Festival and can be accessed in the new portfolio of products that appeared during the first day of the fair, samples of what will be on sale in 2018 throughout the world.
 
As the first surprise for smokers and specialists is the Cohiba Robustos Reserve Harvest of 2014, an habano in which the leaves used as refill and cover used were submitted to a long and careful process of ageing for three years.
 
This Reserve 2014 of Cohiba is a unique production of five thousand numbered boxes (in the cigar world are known for the most common mortals as boxes of 25 units each).
 
Cohiba is the most prestigious and emblem brand of all habanos, starting with its Classic Line developed from 1966 to 1989 of flavor medium to strong.
 
After that, it was joined by Line 1492 (1992), the Cohiba Maduro 5 (2007), and in 2009 appeared the first Great Reserve of Habanos in its emblematic band VI Century, one of the most talked about and still strongly attract smokers.
 
After that followed (2010) the line Cohiba Behike, the most exclusive, in 2012 with the first figurado or pointed band in the Classic Line, the Pyramids Extra and two years ago, the humidor cabinet Cohiba 50th Anniversary, with 50 units and the special edition Cohiba Majestics 1966.
 
Finally, in 2017 the limited edition of Cohiba Talisman was presented. But this 2018 there are many more novelties of other brands, as Partagas Maduro Line, the Hoyo de Monterrey, Le Hoyo Rio Seco, the Vegueros Centrofinos and the Humidor Romeo and Juliet Grand Churchills.
 
All this includes the best leaves and mixed (formula) in response to market trends, besides filling with pride the Cuban producers, be them in the field or in industry.
 
Authorities of the international corporation Habanos S.A. also showed other novelties such as the 2018 Limited Editions witjh Romeo and Juliet Tacos, Bolivar Sovereign and H.Upmann Propios and products for the world chain of La Casa del Habano and for specialists of these cigars. / Prensa Latina