Credits: Article and images by Ken Gargett @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2023/11/28/diplomaticos-30th-anniversary-pcc-cigars-seriously-good-to-stunning/
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Where Diplomaticos have made a mark these days is in the Regional Release program, which we have discussed before. Quite a number have been released, none more famous than the 2015 Asia Pacific release of the Diplomaticos Bushido.
The Japanese samurai code might seem a strange name for a cigar, but it was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Hasekura Tsunenaga’s visit to Cuba.
Tsunenaga stopped there on his way to Europe as part of the Keichō Embassy. He is considered the first Japanese citizen to visit Cuba. Personally, you have to wonder whether the poor fellow was badly lost and ended up there by mistake.
Mind you, it worked for Columbus. On Bond Roberts, boxes of these push US$3,000 on the rare occasions they appear.
The latest Diplomaticos is another Regional Release for the Asia Pacific, indeed, it has been released to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of PCC – Pacific Cigar Company. PCC is based in Hong Kong with offices around Asia, Australia and the Pacific and has done an amazing job over the years. This region accounts for around 20% of all cigar sales, second only to Europe.
Established in 1992 by David Tang (yes, as we have seen before, Cuban time is not always in line with time for the rest of the planet), it has been run by Norwegian Dag Holmboe for many years.
Dag is well known to cigar lovers around the globe, although I will confess that the first time a group of us met him, one of our number, seemingly keen to ingratiate himself, looked Dag squarely in the eye and asked him, “so, Dag, how are things in Norwegia?”.
The rest of us looked for rocks to crawl under and tried to explain to our geographically challenged friend that there was no such country. Dag took it in his stride.
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Credits: Article and images by Ken Gargett @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2023/11/28/diplomaticos-30th-anniversary-pcc-cigars-seriously-good-to-stunning/