Habanos Cigars

Habanos Cigars

From past to present, from the south hemisphere to north hemisphere, economical to conspicuous, the term 'best cigar' is already synonymous to Cuban cigar, those authentic Havanas, or the 'Habanos' cigars. And even with the controversy surrounding all those brand names coming out from Cuba, nothing deters its reign as being the top of the cigar status.

Many elite opinion makers attributed the Habanos cigar's popularity (or notoriety) to the light of controversy surrounding it. One aspect is its being a contraband status. Originally intended by the United States government to halt Cuba's income for its exported cigars, contradictorily it raised the cigar's desirability even more by making it a prohibited material. The effect was just pure economics, that as the supply gets limited, but with a constantly high demand the product gets more expensive.

With limited supply and steeped prices but without the lessening of demand, it only becomes more tempting to counterfeiters and fakers, and thus comes an influx of hundreds of bogus Habanos cigars, often flaunted as 'smuggled' items therefore implying authenticity. All the controversy of Habanos cigars, the toughness of getting an authentic Cuban cigar all these further its prestige.

Aside from that though, Habanos cigars earned its fame deservingly because it is an exceptionally manufactured cigar. It was long accepted that Cuba has the climate perfect for raising crops of tobacco, with a strain of excellent tobacco species, plus a long history of tobacco manufacturing, as early as the Middle Ages. All these allow the two aspects needed for quality tobacco, exceptional tobacco materials and highly skilled tobacco makers.

Having skills in the manufacturing, in all processes becomes highly important as far as quality cigar manufacturing is concerned. The fermenting, the curing process, the mixing of various tobacco leaves, defines much of the final outcome. The fermenting and the mixing especially is a guarded secret that can never be emulated by strictly define procedures of cigar machine manufacturing.

Cuban tobacco makers knows this for a fact, that's why even if faced with the revamping of industrial labor to cheaper and practical industrial machinery, they still proudly declare their products as being the best there is. Totalmente a Mano, in English "Totally Made By Hand", Habanos cigars boasts this feature in all its products, furthering claims that this may be the only industrial segment where humans totally dominate the game.