{"id":3074,"date":"2020-03-02T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2020-03-02T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:46:43","slug":"the-2-6-million-cohiba-humidor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"The $2.6 Million Cohiba Humidor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article-base__info-date\">Posted on: Feb 29, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-base__info-author\">By\u00a0<a title=\"See more from David Savona\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/author\/david-savona\">David Savona<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a title=\"See more from Gregory Mottola\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/author\/gregory-mottola\">Gregory Mottola<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Habanos auction history has been made. The final lot auctioned at the Habanos Festival gala on Friday night broke all records with a 2.4 million euro ($2.6 million) bid for a 5-foot tall cabinet humidor filled with 550 Cuban Cohiba cigars. The bid stunned the crowd and surpassed all previous records for the auction by an enormous margin.<\/p>\n<p>The bid\u2014made by Li Thet from China\u2014brought cheers from the crowd of more than 1,200 cigar smokers and pushed the total raised for the night to 4.3 million euros ($4.7 million). By comparison,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/cuban-auction-raises-more-than-1-7-million\">last year\u2019s auction raised just over $1.7 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d said Max Gutmann, the importer of Cuban cigars to Mexico who has also been to every Habanos Festival auction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a record,\u201d said a smiling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/a-conversation-with-fernando-dominguez-19087\">Fernando Dom\u00ednguez<\/a>, premium cigar director of Imperial Brands, the British company that owns half of Cuba\u2019s Habanos S.A.<\/p>\n<p>The humidor, one of six lots auctioned on Friday night, was made in Cuba by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/havanas-humidor-heaven-18866\">the Uni\u00f3n Humidores group<\/a>\u00a0and is packed with Cohibas of all shapes and sizes. The drawers on both sides of the humidor are\u00a0filled with\u00a0550 cigars, including several rarities\u00a0such as: 40\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/ratings\/search?brand=behike&amp;submitted=Y\">Cohiba Behikes<\/a>\u00a0(in 52 and 54 ring gauge), 20 Esplendidos, 30 Majestuosos (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/cohiba-majestuoso-1966-humidor-hits-global-markets\">celebratory smokes for Cohiba\u2019s 50th anniversary<\/a>), 50\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/ratings\/detail\/source\/search\/note_id\/20235\">Talism\u00e1n<\/a>, 50 Sublimes Extra, 20 Pir\u00e1mides, 20 Gran Coronas, 20 Robusto Especiales, 20 Robusto Supremos, 20\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/top25cigar\/cohiba-1966-edicion-limitada-2011-2012\">Cohiba 1966<\/a>\u00a0and 50 Novedosos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/the-2-6-million-cohiba-humidor\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on: Feb 29, 2020 By\u00a0David Savona\u00a0,\u00a0Gregory Mottola &nbsp; Habanos auction history has been made. The final lot auctioned at the Habanos Festival gala on Friday night broke all records with a 2.4 million euro ($2.6 million) bid for a 5-foot tall cabinet humidor filled with 550 Cuban Cohiba cigars. The bid stunned the crowd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}