It is a warm and slightly sticky late November afternoon inside the early-20th-century mansion that houses the global headquarters of Habanos SA, the body that markets Havana cigars. Fierce sunlight ...

HAVANA, Cuba March 6, 2006 — -- Over a thousand wealthy Cohiba lovers descended on Havana last week for the annual cigar festival. When it comes to building foreign friendships, Cuban President ...

Havana is the destination of the moment. In the past couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones and even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—along with Karl Lagerfeld ...

MAKERS OF THE cigar Fidel Castro made famous were fuming yesterday after an appeals court sent its trademark infringement lawsuit against a New York company up in smoke. The 2nd Circuit U. S. Court of ...

The Cohiba cigar was first rolled in Cuba in 1966. The creation of the tobacco blend that would become known as Cohiba is attributed to two different men. Popular myth has it that Fidel Castro learned ...

It has been a good 12 months for what are euphemistically termed New World cigar producers—that is, those makers based outside Cuba. During the past year, it has been almost as difficult to obtain a ...

Which is not to say that traditionalists won’t find plenty to appreciate at the new Cohiba Experience at The Bacara, which opened to the public this week. As one might imagine, the first permanent ...

The legendary Cuban Cohiba cigar made by state-owned Cubatabaco is said to be the favorite brand of former cigar aficionado Fidel Castro. But after more than a decade of litigation over the Cohiba ...

The Week Portfolio caught up with The Wellesley's resident cigar expert, Giuseppe Ruo, to discuss where the best cigars come from, what his favourite sticks are and what, in his view, is the must-have ...

RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Cigar announces that federal and Florida state law enforcement officials yesterday seized more than 3,000 counterfeit COHIBA® cigars from seven tobacco retail ...