Alexandre Avellar
Alexandre Avellar is considered Brazil’s main reference in cigars. He writes for many cigar publications around the world and has been declared by Habanos S.A. Habanos Man of the Year in Communications in 2020. He travels around the world covering the main events and promoting the cigar culture.
Articles by Alexandre Avellar
La Casa del Habano Partagás Suspends Activity
One of the world’s most representative cigar shops is suspending its activities indefinitely as of today due to a partial collapse of the old Partagás factory last Sunday.
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22nd Habanos Festival with a Surprise Ending
From February 24th to 28th 2,200 enthusiasts gathered in Havana to celebrate cigar culture. The Habanos Festival ended with a record breaking 4,27 million Euros raised at the traditional humidor auction at the Gala Dinner. All activities during the festival offered some surprises for the attendees f
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Habanos presents new products for 2020 at the 22nd Habanos Festival
More than 2,200 people from 70 countries are gathering at Havana this week for the 22nd Habanos Festival. Habanos reported a XX% sales increase in 2019 and a total of XXX millions US-Dollars in revenues.
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New humidor series celebrates Partagás 175th Anniversary
For the second consecutive year Habanos S.A. picks the Sunday preceding the Habanos Festival to present a new release to the specialised press. The Partagás Tropicales (175mm by 54) was presented at the Hotel Packard at Havana for a selected group of 70 journalists from more than 35 countries that a
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Puro Sabor Festival 2020 in Review
From January 21 to 24, the Nicaraguan Chamber of Tobacco promoted the Puro Sabor Festival 2020. After a one-year absence due to the political protests and social unrest in the country, this year’s edition revived the rhythm and brought together cigar enthusiasts from more than 30 countries.
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Cyprus, Lebanon and Dubai hosted their preliminaries for the HWC
Phoenicia Trading, the world’s larget distributor of Cuban cigars, promoted the preliminaries of the Habanos World Challenge at three key countries at their market from December 2nd to 5th, 2019.
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XXXII Meeting of Friends of Partagás
For the cigar enthusiast there is no better time to be at Havana than in the Meeting of Friends of Partagás. The event is recognized to gather people from all over the world to enjoy a good cigar in a very relaxing and informal atmosphere.
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Festival Origens 2019 Edition
For the third consecutive year, the city of Cachoeira at brazilian northeast state of Bahia hosted more than 80 people to celebrate the four C’s of Bahia (Cachaça, Cigars, Coffee and Chocolate) from October 17th to 20th. The innovation on this year’s program was the introduction of a nautical route
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Cohiba Cleared to Be Sold in Brazil
In the past few days in Brazil there have been discussions about the future of the Cohiba brand in the country. It all started due to ANVISA (Brazilian regulatory agency for food, drugs and tobacco, amoung other products) recently barring sales of the brand’s cigars. The agency had detected the pres
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Festival Origens announces the dates for the 2019 edition
The cigar festival is on its third edition and became a mark on the Brazilian tobacco scenario. The 2019 event is scheduled to take place at Chachoeira, a city in the heart of the tobacco region in the country, from October 17 until 20.
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Phoenicia Trading Selects Blend For 40th Anniversary Ramon Allones Phoenicia 40
In a blend tasting promoted by Habanos S.A. and Tabacuba at the Meliá Cohiba hotel in Havana, more than 60 people could try two cigars to select the final blend for the next regional edition for Phonecia Trading A.A., the biggest distributor of Cuban cigars in the world.
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First Hand Tasting of the Trinidad 50 Aniversario
Only a handpicked group of journalists were allowed to taste the Trinidad figurado cigar exclusively.
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