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The Complete Guide for Habanos' Enthusiasts
Habanos s.a - April 2003
A publication released April 2003 as a joint venture between Habanos s.a and Hunters & Frankau
UK. It is still available in some parts of the world.
The publication comprises a stiff cardboard folder containing loose-leaf pages.
It comes complete with a 57 page booklet "Cultivating a Tradition of
Perfection", a cardboard ring
gauge, and a poster entitled "The Guide to
Habanos Sizes". There is an unofficial soft cover US reprint of this publication, that (apparently) contain no new information.
There is one loose-leaf page for each of the (then) current 33 brands,
showing full size colour images of each cigar with their bands. The pages are 165mm x 240mm
which fold out to a width necessary to accommodate the full
range of cigars in each brand. Within each brand, the cigars are
grouped into handmade long-filler, handmade short-filler, and machine made.
This publication is a great snap-shot of the current status of the Habanos range
at the start of 2003. It does not included any of the Special Releases.
Since publication, all of the machine-made cigars have either been
discontinued or are now handmade; and the six fully machine-made brands have been discontinued.
Highly Recommended.
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