Cuba celebrates its cigars in annual Habanos Festival

Cuba celebrates its cigars in annual Habanos Festival
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It is a cigar lover’s paradise. And at Cuba’s annual Habanos festival, aficionados have been able to indulge their passion to the full – not only

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It is a cigar lover’s paradise.

And at Cuba’s annual Habanos festival, aficionados have been able to indulge their passion to the full – not only smoking but learning how to make the perfect cigar in special workshops.

Experienced puffers from around the world could show their prowess in a competition for who could create the longest chain of unbroken ash – apparently it improves the taste.

Ash competition at Cuban cigar festival https://t.co/k3FU1iqq86

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The 18th edition of the Habanos Festival was held in the Cuban capital Havana from February 29 to March 4.

Despite challenging weather conditions for crops, sales of Cuban hand-rolled cigars are said to be on the up
worldwide and a detente in relations with the US has producers eyeing up more profits.

The traditional auction of cigar storage humidors raised hundreds of thousands of euros for the communist-ruled island’s Pubic Health System, in a festival celebrated with music from the likes of Cuba’s own Grammy-winning pianist and composer Chucho Valdés.

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