The anthology of the leaf — Cuban cigars, the European market, and the things worth owning.
The Cohiba Talismán, a limited edition in 2017, is now the ninth size in Cohiba's Línea Clásica. Habanos launched it in London on 7 October 2026 to open Cohiba's 60th year. Size, packaging, the UK-only gift pack, and what it means for European availability.
By Cristian Ortiz Suárez · 26 October
Elite Trading Scandinavia, the exclusive Habanos importer for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Baltics, is in voluntary liquidation. Its tobacco licence is gone for good. No successor has been named. What happened, what the shelves show, and what has changed for buyers across Europe.
On 15 September, Germany's two biggest online cigar shops list one of the 43 Cuban vitolas we track as in stock. The distributor stopped shipping on 4 September and was placed under preliminary insolvency administration on the 9th. What happened, what is still on the shelf in Switzerland and Britain, and what a box now costs a German at the door.
Your humidor is only as good as the number on its hygrometer, and that number drifts. Here is how to check it with table salt or a Boveda 75…
Same ring gauge, same factory, same brand, and one costs twice the other per cigar. A Cuban smoker's honest read on where the Behike money g…
Two lines of ink on the bottom of every Habanos box. One is a date you can read in ten seconds once you know the Spanish months. The other i…
Habanos says 65–70% and 16–18°C. After years of humidors in Havana and Malmö, here is why the low end of that range is the right one for Cub…
Our own four-pocket shirt in the Cuban cut. The first small run is being made now; you'll see the real shirts here, photographed, with the maker named — not before.
