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ImageHurrricane Gustav: “It could have been much worse”

Los Angeles, September 3 – There’s always great excitement when the annual Habanos limited-edition brands and shapes are announced at the annual Festival del Habano in February. Then the waiting starts.

Shipment of the limiteds usually starts in the summer, but this year, the three special-production cigars for 2008 are just now getting ready to be distributed:

  • Cuaba Piramides (6 1/8 inches by 52 ring), the first time that this brand has been included in a Edicion Limitada release. The standard Cuaba shapes are all perfectos, so the torpedo-shaped style is new for this brand.

  • Montecristo Sublimes (6 3/8 x 54), the second time that this shape has been offered. The first was the wildly popular Cohiba Sublime in the 2004 limiteds line and it was only a matter of time before another Sublimes was produced. Why not use it on the biggest-selling Havana brand of them all?

  • Partagas Serie D No. 5 (4 3/8 x 50, shown above), a half-inch shorter version of the famed Serie D No. 4.

    All three are offered in boxes of 25. Habanos, S.A. emphasizes that all leaves involved in an Edicion Limitada cigar are aged for at least two years.

    When will they be in stores? According to the statement from Habanos, “The 2008 Limited Editions must be commercialized through the markets by the last trimester of the year.”

    Hurricane Gustav mauls Cuba, but it could have been worse
    Hurricane Gustav ripped through the Pinar del Rio section of Cuba, reaching the island on Sunday near the town of Los Palacios with winds of more than 150 miles per hour but up to 212 miles an hour in some locations.

    About 250,000 people were evacuated from western Cuba in advance of the storm. Gustav pounded homes and caused considerable damage to an estimated 86,000 dwellings, plus a loss of power to much of western Cuba. Streets were littered with telephone poles, doors and pieces of roofing tiles.

    However, no deaths were credited to the storm and damage to tobacco curing in barns is so far unknown. “It could have been much worse,” said one Cuban economic officer, whose name was not reported. No tobacco crops in the field were impacted, since planting usually begins in October or November, but last season’s harvest has been in the curing barns.

    In Havana, windows were blown out and power poles fell as water surged up over the Malecon on the coastline. But the Cuban News Agency reported only minor damage as the storm moved northward, with 19 homes damaged and some roads clogged with branches and debris.

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