8 years ago
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
World’s Largest Cigar Sells For N29m
Juan Panesso, from CigarsDirect.com, an online cigar shop
specializing in foreign cigars put up $185,000 for a giant 19-foot Gran
Habano #5 El Gigante on Sunday morning.
Panesso placed his bid on the mighty beast for a private collector in a special cigar auction.
“A guy called and he needed to locate a few high-end cigars,” Panesso
said. “We pride ourselves on finding the hard-to-find cigars,” he said.
“This shows we are able to fill all our orders.”
The cigar, nearly 19 feet long and more than 3 feet wide, came in its
own carrying case, a 900 pound round wooden crate that looks like an
old steam locomotive. It sat inside a Clearwater warehouse Sunday
awaiting the gentle hands of workers to crate it up and ship it out on
Tuesday, TBO reports.
The cigar came from a collector in Miami, he said, and it has been in
the public before, on display at cigar shows and events. It took 16,000
wrapper leaves to sheath the tobacco, which is enough to make 25,000
regular size cigars. The beast weighs 1,600 pounds, paper ring included.
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