Cigar Report: Current Cubans

(Cigar Aficionado) ... These were hardly scientific tastings. The cigars were not smoked blind, as we do here in our offices. We smoked them in various places, sometimes during or after meals, sometimes with libations and some cigars were bought in stores or bars while others were given to us in factories or by officials from Habanos S.A. I don't give scores for cigars that we taste this way, but I will give you a description of the smokes to provide you with a snapshot of how the current production Cubans are smoking right now, in the country in which they're made. Continued

Pictured: Man with cigar ice skating by A. B. Frost, Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).