{"id":28758,"date":"2019-04-16T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=28758"},"modified":"2019-04-18T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:20:35","slug":"phoenicia-trading-selects-blend-for40thanniversary-ramon-allones-phoenicia40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/phoenicia-trading-selects-blend-for40thanniversary-ramon-allones-phoenicia40\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenicia Trading Selects Blend For 40th Anniversary Ramon Allones Phoenicia 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a blend tasting promoted by Habanos S.A. and Tabacuba at the Meli\u00e1 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.<\/p>\n<p>The top management of the three companies were joined by the <em>Comissi\u00f3n Nacional de Cata<\/em> (presided by the Quality Director of Tabacuba, Mr. Luis Felipe Milan\u00e9s) and the tasters from the main five Cuban cigar factories: Laguito, La Corona, Partag\u00e1s, H. Upmann and Romeo y Julieta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis extraordinary tasting was held by Habanos and Tabacuba in recoginiton of the Phoenicia team under their president, Mr. Mohammed Zeidan for forty years of hard work and their accomplishments for the Cuban cigar industry\u201d says Walid Saleh C.E.O of Phoenicia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28764\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28764\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_event40anniv-770x578.jpg\" alt=\"40TH ANNIVERSARY RAMON ALLONES PHOENICIO\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_event40anniv-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_event40anniv-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_event40anniv-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-28764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alexandre Avellar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ramon Allones Phoenicia 40 is a Sublimes size (164mm by 54 ring gauge) and will have a production of 450.000 units. To celebrate the occasion, four lines of 100 humidors containing 40 cigars each will be produced (Phoenicians, Mediterranean, Volutes and Horizon). A fifth line called Journey will have a production of 40 humidors of 40 cigars. All humidors are being produced by Elie Bleu the French company of high end humidors. The other cigars will come in boxes of 20.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28770\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28770\" class=\"wp-image-28770 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/PHOENICIA-40th-Collection-humidor.jpg\" alt=\"40TH ANNIVERSARY RAMON ALLONES PHOENICIO -Humidor Collection\" width=\"770\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/PHOENICIA-40th-Collection-humidor.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/PHOENICIA-40th-Collection-humidor-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/PHOENICIA-40th-Collection-humidor-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-28770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture: Elie Bleu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Ramon Allones Phoenicio that celebrated the 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of our company was a revolution at that time and it is considered one of the best regional editions ever produced. The Phoenicio 40 is going to be the <em>cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me<\/em>\u201d adds Mr. Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves will come for the Hector Luis farm and the cigars will be rolled by the best cigar rollers at the Partag\u00e1s Factory under the supervision of Jos\u00e9 Castelar, a.k.a Cueto. The world premiere of this release is going to be held in Beirut on November 8, 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28766\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28766\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_40anniv-770x578.jpg\" alt=\"40TH ANNIVERSARY RAMON ALLONES PHOENICIO\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_40anniv.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_40anniv-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/phoenica_40anniv-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-28766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector Lu\u00eds, Jose Castelar Cueto | Photo: Alexandre Avellar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a blend tasting promoted by Habanos S.A. and Tabacuba at the Meli\u00e1 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":28759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53,49,2808,44],"tags":[319,5810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}