Five months ago in Las Vegas, Hirochi Robaina more or less made his debut in the U.S. cigar market at the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, tonight in Vegas, the cigar he is tasked with promoting in the U.S. is set for debut. Hirochi Robaina is the grandson of the late Alejandro Robaina, the legendary Cuban farmer who grew tobacco at his Cuchillas de Barbacoa farm in San Luis, Pinar Del Río. The younger Robaina spent over a decade working under his grandfather and has ran the farm since the elder Robaina’s death in 2010. In 2011, Robaina was approached by Omar González Alemán, a veteran of Cuba’s cigar industry who had left to work at Cubanacan in Estelí, Nicaragua. The two collaborated to produce HR Habano, a cigar made and distributed by Cubanacan with the help of Robaina. There are four sizes Hermoso (5 1/8 x 48, $18.99), Belicoso (5 1/2 x 52, $19.99), Toro (6 x 52, $20.99) and Sublime (6 1/2 x 54, $21.99), each offered in boxes of 20. As one might expect, it uses a habano wrapper, more specifically Ecuadorian habano 2000 over a binder from Jalapa, Nicaragua and other Nicaraguan filler tobaccos. Tonight, Robaina will ...
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