Press Release: Mexico Won the 11th International Habanosommelier Contest

March 3, 2012 (Havana, Cuba) — Well established as one of the Habano Festival’s major events, the last stretch of the contest featured a painstaking end for the jury due to the skills and knowledge on Habanos showed by those who made it to the grand finale.

The best evaluation was for Mexico’s Luis Garcia, followed by Chile’s Andres Arteaga y Cuban rookie competitor Daniel Reyes.

The International Habanosommelier Contest, that’s become one of the most effective tools to spread the art and tradition of Habano all around the world, has held eleven edition that have gathered contestants from nearly two dozen nations. The end results have had a major impact as a way to get in touch with this product and the Cuban culture.

Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.