Cigras, especially pre-Castro Havanas, have become valuable collectors' items. In the U.S. they are techinically unavailable because of the 30-year embargo against Cuba, but in Britain, sales are up 25 to 40 pecent over the past 18months. Cigar aficionados appereciate their rich spicy flaver. Old cigars are prized for their rarity as well as flaver. The oldest existing cigars are probably those made for the Great London Exhibition of 1851. But in time even these rarities, in the hands of connoisseurs, will go up in smoke.
April 08, 2006
Cigar Collectors
Cigras, especially pre-Castro Havanas, have become valuable collectors' items. In the U.S. they are techinically unavailable because of the 30-year embargo against Cuba, but in Britain, sales are up 25 to 40 pecent over the past 18months. Cigar aficionados appereciate their rich spicy flaver. Old cigars are prized for their rarity as well as flaver. The oldest existing cigars are probably those made for the Great London Exhibition of 1851. But in time even these rarities, in the hands of connoisseurs, will go up in smoke.
