Habano is a term that can be used as an adjective or as a noun . In the first case, the concept usually refers to someone or something linked to Havana and, by extension, to Cuba in general.
The most common use of the notion, however, is as a noun. In this case, a habano is a cigar that is manufactured in Cuban territory with leaves from plants grown on the same island .
A cigar is a roll of tobacco leaves that is smoked . The smoker must light the cigarette at one end and inhale at the other. When the cigar is made with paper , wrapping the tobacco, it is called a cigarette .
In the case of the cigar, it is a pure cigar since it is not rolled with paper, but is made exclusively with rolled tobacco. Furthermore, for cigars to be considered Havana, all of the tobacco they contain must have been grown in Cuba and also dried and manufactured in said country.
According to specialists, cigars have an extraordinary quality due to the particularities of the soil and climatic conditions of Cuba , to which are added the knowledge and experience of the nation 's farmers and manufacturers.
The big cigar smokers bet, without a doubt, on two brands fundamentally since they stand out for their tradition and quality. One of them is Cohiba, which was launched in 1966 and has its factory in El Laguito, in Havana.
For many years he focused solely and exclusively on shaping cigars to entertain illustrious figures and also for the one who led the country for many years, Fidel Castro. However, as time went by, it began to market its cigars to all smokers. Currently, it is the brand that has the most prestige in the world.
A singularity is its name. Specifically, you should know that Cohiba is a word used by the original inhabitants of the island, the Taíno Indians, to name the rolled tobacco leaves that were smoked.
Another of the most internationally recognized brands in terms of cigars is Montecristo, which was founded in Havana back in 1935. Its name comes precisely from the novel “The Count of Montecristo”, written by Alejandro Dumas, because it was the one that the factory reader read to the workers.
It has a wide variety of vitolas to differentiate the varieties of cigars it prepares: Edmundo, which has a length of 135 millimeters; Montecristo A, which has a length of 235 millimeters; Petit Edmundo, which is 110 millimeters long; Open Eagle, which is 150 millimeters long…
It should be noted that tobacco is a plant native to South America that, over the course of history , arrived in Cuba . The native inhabitants of the island usually consumed the plant for healing and ceremonial purposes and began to specialize in its cultivation. All this baggage was reflected in the development of the cigar tradition.