Cohiba
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-22 00:25:20
My name is David Robert Panther the youngest of three son's to William Albert Percy Panther and Marion Panther formerly Marion Thompson. The eldest brother is Dennis William Panther and then Christopher John Panther The Panther family are originally from London and the main Panther family mansion was in Albany ParkNan and Pop Panther moved to Canterbury in Kent and then the seaside town of Ramsgate and finally on the cliffs of Dumpton Park overlooking the sea and township of RamsgateI was born in Woolwich South East London briefly living in Eltham and then Swanscombe in Kent and then finally Plumstead London SE18I would desire all visitors who read my journal wether family friend or guest's to make comments and become involved in the overall circumscribe. I hope that it may be possible to make contact with others from my past in order to revisit an era and experiences from the stories I am telling in my journal.
I bequeath reading the history books about Sir Walter Raleigh bringing tobacco approve to England from the America’s and the first voyage of Columbus to the then new world. Columbus visited the island of Cuba and his sailors were introduced to tobacco called "Cohiba" by the natives whom literally took a clump of dried leaves placing them in a pipe lighting and smoking them. Cohiba Cuban cigars were introduced initially to non diplomats and a small be was provided being the Lanceros the Coronas Especiales and the Panatelas. Three more Cigars were then added to the brand in 1989 being the Esplйndidos and the Robustos which are two of my favourite cigars and the Exquisitos. The Siglo be of Cohiba are extremely popular and the Siglo V Cohiba is still considered by many to be the number one cigar in the Cohiba range and of course only the finest tobacco leaves are used in the making of Cohiba cigars. The Cohíba brand of Cigars was originally a private brand supplied exclusively to Fidel Castro and his high aim Cuban government and communist celebrate officials and also given as diplomatic gifts. The original cigars were initially smoked by one of Fidel Castro's bodyguards named "Chicho Perez” which Castro noticed as the aromatic flavour would fill the air. When Chicho was asked by Castro what brand he was smoking replied that it was hand rolled for him by a friend who gave him some of these special cigars as gifts. The man who made these cigars was a cigar roller who worked at the La Corona factory in Havana named Eduardo Rivera. Castro approached Rivera about rolling cigars for him personally and set him up with five other rollers in a former diplomats mansion in Havana that later became the first cigar factory to be staffed entirely by female cigar rollers; Castro was extremely fond of the long thin cigars rolled for him and these cigars later became known as Lancero and Corona Especial. Like all of the famous Cuban Cigar makers there are limited or special editions produced that are outside of the regular production range however my personal favourite Cohiba are the Piramid. Robusto and the Esplendido pictured below. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://cigar-connoisseur.blogspot.com/2007/11/cohiba.html
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