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The launch of the Punch Gold Medal Regional Edition was no doubt a major development for cigar aficionados in the UK. The event took place within the framework of the Best of British, a celebration organized in late May by H & M at the Langham Hotel in London.

The fourth edition of the Montecristo Golf Cup, held April 19-21, 2012 at the Varadero Golf Club in Cuba’s Varadero, was no doubt a moment to feast eyes on.

This year the Montecristo Golf Cup gathered a hundred players from different countries and doled out prizes in a number of categories, in which the Montecristo Cup, by far the most coveted prize up for grabs, went to Canada’s Jim Howars.

A businesswoman, an outstanding tobacco planter and a Guinness World Record-holding cigar roller are the recipients of this year’s awards
 

A film by James Suckling and James Orr was shown in the main hall of the Intl. Conference Center in Havana for a huge turnout of viewers attending the 14^th Habano Festival

Institutions like Caribex, Brascuba and Cuba Cafe stood out among the award recipients

This video gave Cuban filmmaker Niurka Perez Perez the first spot of the Habanos in Images contest

“This has been a family reunion of people bound together by a natural affection for Habano,” said Habanos S.A. Co-President Jorge Luis Maique at the closing ceremony of the Intl. Seminar and Tradeshow

A Documentary by James Suckling and James Orr on the Fascinating Habano World

• American actor Jim Belushi, British musicians Jack Bruce and Phil Manzanera, and NBA ex players Travis Best and Dale Davis, among others, exclusively enjoyed the new Cohiba Pirámides Extra
• The first stage of the alliance between Habanos & Port Wines and the exclusive tasting of Cohiba Behike and Havana Club Máximo Reserva 100 años,the most exclusive products of both brands, took place
• Chef Sergio Torres, from the Michelin Star restaurant Dos Cielos in Barcelona, attended 520^th Anniversary of the Discovery of Tobacco in Cuba Night, and designed one of the dishes tasted

A couple of years since its foundation, this cultural project attached to the Museum of Habano and the Office of the Havana City Historian, is going increasingly stronger as a platform to spread out the longstanding history and decisive presence of Habano in destination Cuba.