Cigar Aficionados Rub Shoulders, Puff at Cuba's Tobacco Fest

(Wall Street Journal) ... anyone who is anyone in the cigar world will this weekend be flying into Havana's Jose Marti International Airport for the 12th annual festival. They will get five days of cigar tastings, tobacco-plantation visits, seminars, factory tours and smoking, lots and lots of smoking.
It is, says Simon Chase, a former director of London-based cigar importer Hunters & Frankau and a festival regular, a chance to rub shoulders with the movers and shakers in the Cuban tobacco industry and experience the tradition of Cuba's cigar lineage first hand. Continued