Krakow

[Hookmaker]

Premium Cigars is the Polish sub-distributor for 5th Avenue. Just as Ampersand Ltd. is the Irish sub-distributor for Hunters & Frankau.
I promise it does exist! I know the directors.

https://premiumcigars.pl/

Sorry mate wasn't aware 5th had a sub distributor👍


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[Simon Bolivar]

Szymon, great guy, is now working directly with the Polish distributor, Premium Cigars. I spent a lot of time with him in Cuba two weeks ago.

Here he is playing pool at 5 am in a 24 hour bar after the Habanos gala dinner two weeks ago. With friend of mine /model Lily, my lawyer Cynthia (at the cue ball), hotel night manager Jefferson, and Piotr, another pole getting big very quickly in the world of Cuban cigars. Some of you have almost certainly had dealings with him. Good fun. More fun than the dinner. Terrible slope on the table.

You had your lawyer playing pool at 05:00! Don't they usually bill by the minute? Impressed the manager, still wearing his tie correctly at that time in the morning.

[Ryan]

Szymon likes his tie! He dances in his tie. My Cuban lawyer cost me much more than my Irish Lawyer, but she was worth it. Getting documents through Cuban bureaucracy takes time and effort and she helped speed up the process. Last May and June I spent over 4,000 euro just getting documents stamped (8 stamps from different bodies on 9 documents), and she got me through the final push. I signed contracts with the Cuban govt on the last day of my trip last July.

[Simon Bolivar]

Szymon likes his tie! He dances in his tie. My Cuban lawyer cost me much more than my Irish Lawyer, but she was worth it. Getting documents through Cuban bureaucracy takes time and effort and she helped speed up the process. Last May and June I spent over 4,000 euro just getting documents stamped (8 stamps from different bodies on 9 documents), and she got me through the final push. I signed contracts with the Cuban govt on the last day of my trip last July.

Are you starting a business there Ryan?

[Ryan]

Are you starting a business there Ryan?

Started. Pinarica Coffee. The first single origin coffee from Pinar del Rio. Lots of work to do, including completing the website but some impressions here. Hope to have the first coffee ready in April/May.

https://www.instagram.com/pinarica_coffee?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw%3D%3D

[Simon Bolivar]

Started. Pinarica Coffee. The first single origin coffee from Pinar del Rio. Lots of work to do, including completing the website but some impressions here. Hope to have the first coffee ready in April/May.

https://www.instagram.com/pinarica_c...c0MzIxNw%3D%3D

Impressed! Wishing you much success in this venture. It's tough starting any business, one can only imagine the extra hassles in Cuba.
Please send a link when it's available in the UK, sure we would all want to support you & try this coffee. Personally, I smoke all my smaller cigars with coffee & only go one to beer or spirits for larger smokes.

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[Simon Bolivar]

Suggest you start your own thread in general, to update us.

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[Ryan]

Impressed! Wishing you much success in this venture. It's tough starting any business, one can only imagine the extra hassles in Cuba.
Please send a link when it's available in the UK, sure we would all want to support you & try this coffee. Personally, I smoke all my smaller cigars with coffee & only go one to beer or spirits for larger smokes.

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Thank you for the support! I have a UK distributor in mind. I will have more samples in a couple of months. It's a nice project. Farm staff have already gone from 2 in November to 13 this month. Aiming at doubling that again in the next 12 months. The countryside in Cuba has been emptied out of people. Rural people in Cuba are moving to Havana to take jobs of those who've left the country. Many in Cuba are saying that 3 million have left since Covid, almost 30% of the population. So it's about supporting the rural community around the farm. My wife, kids and I are going in June. We have ideas for the local schools and health clinic. In the meantime I have to buy a tractor and a minibus. As for the coffee, it pairs well with cigars, the initial market I am aiming at is cigar smokers. At least, it will allow Cuban cigar smokers to drink the same coffee that the tobacco farmers of Pinar del Rio drink. 30% of the crop will be sold in the local market, this is newly developed production, so there will be more coffee in the local market as a result of this. As with most other things, there is currently a coffee shortage in Cuba too.

I took this earlier this month on the farm. Coffee (flowering at the moment) beside a field of tobacco.

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[Simon Bolivar]

Thank you for the support! I have a UK distributor in mind. I will have more samples in a couple of months. It's a nice project. Farm staff have already gone from 2 in November to 13 this month. Aiming at doubling that again in the next 12 months. The countryside in Cuba has been emptied out of people. Rural people in Cuba are moving to Havana to take jobs of those who've left the country. Many in Cuba are saying that 3 million have left since Covid, almost 30% of the population. So it's about supporting the rural community around the farm. My wife, kids and I are going in June. We have ideas for the local schools and health clinic. In the meantime I have to buy a tractor and a minibus. As for the coffee, it pairs well with cigars, the initial market I am aiming at is cigar smokers. At least, it will allow Cuban cigar smokers to drink the same coffee that the tobacco farmers of Pinar del Rio drink. 30% of the crop will be sold in the local market, this is newly developed production, so there will be more coffee in the local market as a result of this. As with most other things, there is currently a coffee shortage in Cuba too.

I took this earlier this month on the farm. Coffee (flowering at the moment) beside a field of tobacco.

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Proving my point, coffee & cigars are natural bed mates!😅

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