Davidoff Cigars

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Davidoff Outside of Cuban cigars , few brands are as trusted worldwide and as famous for their quality as Davidoff. Having left Ukraine for Geneva at the age of 5, Zino Davidoff took the cigar shop that bore his family name to heights never before dreamt of in the cigar industry, with branches across the world, a line of bespoke Cuban cigars and luxury accessories to aid the smoking experience all created under the Davidoff umbrella. Today, the brand’s relationship with Cuba is no more, but the cigars produced at their factories in the Dominican Republic and Honduras, using tobacco from around the world, are considered the gold standard for New World sticks. The first Davidoff Cigars to be produced in Cuba were born in El Laguito, the same legendary factory where Cohiba are produced. In 1967 Cubatabaco (the state’s tobacco monopoly) approached Zino Davidoff personally to see if he would be interested in a collaboration, having already developed a reputation for himself in the cigar world as a legendary retailer of Cuban products. In fact, during World War II, Zino personally acquired the entire Cuban stock held in France, safeguarding them in his Swiss stores for return to the nation in peacetime. This partnership continued in earnest for 20 years, and what was created had now become the stuff of legend. Rare caches of Cuban Davidoffs command extraordinary prices not just in store, but in some of the most luxurious and exclusive smoking lounges in the world. Sadly, the relationship turned sour when, in 1989, Zino Davidoff publicly incinerated a stock of 100,000 cigars sent to him by Cuba which he had deemed unfit to bear his name. Cuban production of his cigars was officially ceased in 1991. In order to continue production for the brand after severing ties with Havana, Davidoff turned to the producers of the Dominican Republic, finding a master of the tobacco arts in cigar producer Hendrik “Henke” Kelner. Together, Kelner and the Davidoff company established a posit

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