Popular Post El Presidente Posted March 1 Popular Post Posted March 1 Great article from HW taking you through all the humidors at this years auction https://halfwheel.com/festival-del-habano-xxv-the-humidor-auction/447802/ Post your favourite 3 2
westg Posted March 1 Posted March 1 520 Cohiba includes Behike. Would I smoke them ? Yep all of them with friends of course. Would have been some fun bidding and winning any of them I would of thought. And that $20 million will go to a charitable cause, no doubt! 🤔 1
unaslob Posted March 2 Posted March 2 The humidors are works of art. It’s hard to understand the scale of some of them without perspective of someone standing by one. I think it would be neat to see how they work or move. Wonder who out there is purchasing these beasts?
Popular Post Chibearsv Posted March 2 Popular Post Posted March 2 The RyJ humidor is pretty sharp without looking like an in-store advertising piece. 7
Popular Post Ford2112 Posted March 2 Popular Post Posted March 2 Being a Partagas guy, I like this... I also like this... 455 cigars included: 25 Partagás 8-9-8 20 Partagás 109 25 Partagás Aliados 25 Partagás Cerdos 20 Partagás Legados 25 Partagás Lusitanias 25 Partagás Maduro No. 1 25 Partagás Maduro No. 2 25 Partagás Maduro No. 3 25 Partagás Maestro 25 Partagás Origen 25 Partagás Presidentes 25 Partagás Rito 20 Partagás Salomones 25 Partagás Serie D No. 4 25 Partagás Serie E No. 2 25 Partagás Serie No. 1 25 Partagás Serie P No. 2 20 Partagás Tropicales 5 1
Popular Post JohnnyO Posted March 2 Popular Post Posted March 2 Imagine telling customs in your country, "Yeah, I paid $4.62 million for this cigar humidor". John 1 4
Gamehawker Posted March 2 Posted March 2 I am surprised that the H. Upmann Humidor does not include any Sir Winstons. And I did a quick calculation and I have calculated a total of 345 cigars. Not the 375 total cigars that they said are included with the humidor. 🤔 375 cigars are included: 20 H. Upmann Butifarra No.2 20 H. Upmann Connoisseur No. 1 20 H. Upmann Connossieur No. 2 20 H. Upmann Connoisseur 20 H. Upmann Magnum 46 20 H. Upmann Magnum 56 25 H. Upmann Magnum 50 25 H. Upmann Magnum 54 25 H. Upmann Magnum 52 25 H. Upmann Magnum Especial 25 H. Upmann Magnum Finite 25 H. Upmann Monarcas 25 H. Upmann Magnum No.3 25 H. Upmann Super Magnum 25 H. Upmann Upmann No. 2 3
El Presidente Posted March 2 Author Posted March 2 https://havanatimes.org/features/cubas-habanos-cigar-festival-brings-in-us-17-million/ Cuba’s Habanos Cigar Festival Brings in US $17 Million March 2, 2025 The closing gala was enlivened by the legendary group Earth, Wind & Fire. / EFE The lucrative humidor auction closed the event. The government says the money goes to the Cuban Health System. By Juan Izquierdo (14ymedio) HAVANA TIMES – Two cedar drawers one atop the other, a giant Indian head – the Cohiba Behíke logo – and white squares on black varnish: this is the humidor auctioned this Friday for 4.6 million euros (4.7 million dollars) during the closing gala of the Habanos Festival. Never before had so much been paid for a cigar storage unit, whose exclusivity is based on a detail that the official press did not mention: the signature of Miguel Díaz-Canel. Six other humidors – valuable but not signed by the president, a tradition established by Fidel Castro – were auctioned off during the dinner, for a total of 16.41 million euros (17 million dollars). They represented the major cigar brands: Cohiba, Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, H. Upmann, Partagás and Hoyo de Monterrey. According to some media the buyer, who was not identified, is Chinese. One of the million-dollar humidors made by Cuban craftspeople. Photo: Cubadebate The money, the official press insists goes to the island’s health system. In light of the Cuban health debacle and the total crisis in the country, few can believe this mantra that is repeated at each Festival. DIaz-Canel was at the dinner, but unlike last year, there were hardly any photos circulating of him smoking among the guests or signing the humidor, gestures that caused great controversy at the last edition of the Festival. Also at the dinner were the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, and other members of the top brass of the regime. The auctioned piece of furniture was not the only record broken by Habanos SA – the Cuban tobacco monopoly, shared by Cuba and Spain – announced at the beginning of the week that it had had revenues of 827 million dollars in 2024, 106 million more than the previous year. The auction which, in the past, Castro served as host of millionaires and sometimes served as auctioneer, is the most eagerly awaited event of the Festival, attended by tycoons and fans from around the world. Some of its participants were the first, albeit very discreet, guests of the new luxury hotel Iberostar, in the 42-story K Tower on 23rd Street, opposite the decaying Coppelia. The closing gala – with entertainment by the legendary group Earth, Wind & Fire – was overshadowed, however, by the “intermediate” dinner that Habanos organized at the Capitol on Wednesday to present another luxury vitola, the H. Upmann Magnum 50. The adjectives that the company used to describe the event left no doubt about its character: “exclusive, refined, exquisite.” The Salon of Lost Steps, once a place of debate and reflection on the Republic, was filled with 600 guests in tuxedos, overwhelmed by the play of light. No colored lights were spared on the dome of the Capitol, nor on the also gold-plated statue of the Republic, cast in 1928 by the Italian sculptor Angelo Zanelli. The pro-government journalist and professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Havana, Ana Teresa Badía, harshly criticized the display. “What was the intention this Habanos Festival meant to convey? In a world in which the construction of public opinion is increasingly symbolic, this is very wrong. A serious error in political communication that buries the ideology that Cuba has defended. The place is the headquarters of our Parliament and now it is used in images that resemble a kind of brothel from the 1950s,” she wrote on her Facebook profile. The painter Hermes Entenza, for his part, wrote: “The Habanos Festival, where glamour becomes ridiculous and extravagant, where the working people, who look at the building in dismay, do not even have cigarettes to smoke. Cuba in the Capitol, Cuba imprisoned by itself, moaning in the dark and feeling the walls of the beautiful building rumble to the sound of the empowered who have raised this movie to the level of a horror film… You have to have a very perverse mind to applaud this revelry.” The immoderation marked both the making of the humidors and the vitolas. This was underlined by David Savona, director of Cigar Aficionado – the most recognized magazine in the sector – who was present at the Festival, who described step by step the hours it took him to finish the Cohiba Behíke BHK 58, the star of the night. While the cigars and lights were lit in the Capitol and other Habano Festival venues, the homes of most Cubans were suffering prolonged power outages. On Saturday, when the guests announced their return home with “cigars as gifts,” they left an Island submerged in blackout.
El Presidente Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 On 3/2/2025 at 12:36 PM, unaslob said: Wonder who out there is purchasing these beasts? Generally distributors/sub distributors who have a buyer lined up. You don't see them coming up on the secondary
Wlu1988 Posted March 3 Posted March 3 15 hours ago, Ford2112 said: Being a Partagas guy, I like this... I also like this... 455 cigars included: 25 Partagás 8-9-8 20 Partagás 109 25 Partagás Aliados 25 Partagás Cerdos 20 Partagás Legados 25 Partagás Lusitanias 25 Partagás Maduro No. 1 25 Partagás Maduro No. 2 25 Partagás Maduro No. 3 25 Partagás Maestro 25 Partagás Origen 25 Partagás Presidentes 25 Partagás Rito 20 Partagás Salomones 25 Partagás Serie D No. 4 25 Partagás Serie E No. 2 25 Partagás Serie No. 1 25 Partagás Serie P No. 2 20 Partagás Tropicales High on the list of purchases…when I win the lottery. Until then, I supposed I need to keep making new friends. 1
gormag38 Posted March 3 Posted March 3 On 3/2/2025 at 6:37 AM, Chibearsv said: The RyJ humidor is pretty sharp without looking like an in-store advertising piece That was my first reaction as well. Hell, and I'm not even a RyJ fan. I just think it looks really sharp. I'm sure I'm just being 'dull' but did anyone else go 'hmmmm' when seeing the broken Taino head on the cohiba humidor? Were they going for an outline of the island??? Or just accidentally had some broke and decided to 'go with it' 😆
avitus Posted March 3 Posted March 3 Quote The cheapest lot of the night was another one not expected, a colorful Punch humidor that went for 170,000 euros (about $177,000). Has anyone seen Punch humidor's pictures? Could not find anything on the internet except for general information.
Chibearsv Posted March 3 Posted March 3 3 hours ago, gormag38 said: I'm sure I'm just being 'dull' but did anyone else go 'hmmmm' when seeing the broken Taino head on the cohiba humidor? Were they going for an outline of the island??? Or just accidentally had some broke and decided to 'go with it' 😆 Looks more like Kentucky than the island. Initially, I thought it was more like those tree slab tables with natural knots and holes and such, but upon closer inspection, it appears to be something laminated, so I'll go with "it broke". 😁
unaslob Posted March 4 Posted March 4 On 3/3/2025 at 6:36 AM, El Presidente said: The pro-government journalist and professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Havana, Ana Teresa Badía, harshly criticized the display. “What was the intention this Habanos Festival meant to convey? In a world in which the construction of public opinion is increasingly symbolic, this is very wrong. A serious error in political communication that buries the ideology that Cuba has defended. The place is the headquarters of our Parliament and now it is used in images that resemble a kind of brothel from the 1950s,” she wrote on her Facebook profile. The painter Hermes Entenza, for his part, wrote: “The Habanos Festival, where glamour becomes ridiculous and extravagant, where the working people, who look at the building in dismay, do not even have cigarettes to smoke. Cuba in the Capitol, Cuba imprisoned by itself, moaning in the dark and feeling the walls of the beautiful building rumble to the sound of the empowered who have raised this movie to the level of a horror film… You have to have a very perverse mind to applaud this revelry.” The immoderation marked both the making of the humidors and the vitolas. This was underlined by David Savona, director of Cigar Aficionado – the most recognized magazine in the sector – who was present at the Festival, who described step by step the hours it took him to finish the Cohiba Behíke BHK 58, the star of the night. While the cigars and lights were lit in the Capitol and other Habano Festival venues, the homes of most Cubans were suffering prolonged power outages. On Saturday, when the guests announced their return home with “cigars as gifts,” they left an Island submerged in blackout. The end of this article was less than glamorous and provides an interesting pulse. 1
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