At the 2015 edition of the annual Habanos Festival held in Havana, Cuba, the state-run company launched this wonderful humidor, commemorating the 170 anniversary of one of its most revered brands; Partagas. The “Partagas 170 Anniversario Humidor” was produced in small quantities of 450 units, each containing 50 cigars. The beautiful handmade humidor hit the retailers by late 2016, and today, there are hardly any left available on the market, at least not for the original suggested retail price.
The Humidor
First off, this is not to be confused with the Partagas Replica of an Antique Humidor that was released in 2007. That release saw only 200 humidors produced with an astonishing size; the Sobresalientes (53 x 153 mm).
The humidor we are featuring today is long and rectangular, and less ornate in the finishing as some of the other special edition humidors released in the last decade or so. Nonetheless, each humidor is handmade and will immediately hold a special place in any cigar collection. It has become indeed quite a collector’s piece, and was last seen selling for 12,000 GBP, almost triple the amount when it was originally released.
The Cigars
Factory Name: Partagas 170
Size: 56 x 6.75 inches
Shape: Partagas 170
50 cigars
This is the only cigar in the Habanos portfolio released with this size. The closest cigar to it is the vitola named “O’Reilly, which we remember from the San Cristobal O’Reilly and Bolivar Mundiales, both measuring in at 56 x 6.25
With plain packaging in full force in Australia, and soon to be in full force in Canada, these special humidors will be items found mostly in the shops in Europe and Asia. Very few actually stay in Cuba, and if they do, the recent trend of bribing the shop’s working staff to purchase one, means that the humidors will never hit the actual retail section for the public to see. It is an unfortunate reality which refrains the average cigar aficionado the possibility of seeing one of the beauties up close.
