Phone: 03 Fax: 03 E-mail: info cigars. Trading Hours Monday to Friday - Jack Nicholson — The mad, bad, now grandad of Hollywood, Jack Nicholson has had a career spanning over 50 years. But that was the thing that I was born for. The Old Man and the Sea was the first novel I ever read. Santiago was my introduction to Cuba. After I discovered the real Santiago was still, at , puffing away on a cigar in his home in Cojimar, broke as I was, I had to go.
And these same Cuban friends did help me find him. With a thin, almost gaunt body, deeply weathered face, and hands with deeply creased scars, he reminded me of Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea. Like Santiago, Fuentes' scars are not disfiguring. His scars are scars of honor, emblems of triumph. To paraphrase Hemingway, his eyes are "blue like the sea, and undefeated. Seated in his rocking chair, wearing a baseball cap that bears the likeness of Hemingway on the front, Gregorio sits framed by the large portrait of Hemingway and himself that hangs on the wall behind him.
After customarily clipping away the gold band from his Romeo y Julieta Churchill, he lights it. He still enjoys a daily variety of cigars.
Most are gifts brought to him from the famous cigar factories of Havana by visitors and journalists. With cigar in hand, Gregorio leans back and begins to reminisce about his favorite subject: his exploits and adventures with Ernest Hemingway. Fuentes' first meeting with the future literary giant was an accident and an adventure. The year-old Fuentes, a captain of a fishing vessel that made regular trips between Cuba and the U. When the occupant of the boat called out for help in Spanish, Fuentes came to the rescue.
As I approached the boat, the man who spoke such beautiful Spanish said that he was American. That was Mr. Hemingway," Fuentes says. Hemingway said that he was very hungry because he had been stranded for a long period of time without food. So I shared the onions and wine that we had on board with him. Hemingway then stated that he was not as sorry for having no fuel as he was for not having food. Fuentes towed Hemingway and his boat to a lighthouse in the U.
Dry Tortugas, where Hemingway communicated by phone to officials in Key West, his original destination. The last thing Hemingway said that day to the young Cuban was, "Goodbye, my friend.
I'll see you again in Cuba. That prophecy proved true several years later. At the time, Fuentes was working on a ship owned by the University of Massachusetts.
A friend wanted to introduce him to Ernest Hemingway. The roll is firm and regular, and the draw is just right. One match is usually all it takes. The burn can be a little uneven until the cinder has reached the main shank of the cigar, but from that point it evens out. The Short Story is surprisingly complex for such a small cigar. It opens up with a strong sweet cedar flavor and a touch of mint, the hallmark of Cameroon wrapper. The smoke is medium to full in texture with a spicy tang. After a few more puffs the flavor gets earthier and there is a touch of black pepper on the tongue.
This is a medium bodied cigar in terms of both smoke density and power, but it has a lot of character.
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