高斯巴

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　　高斯巴（Cohiba）是古巴革命鬥士切·格瓦拉最愛享用的品牌。厚實的外形，滑手的質感和絲絲順暢的口感，視覺柔和，味道很乾凈，呼出的煙霧有一種一環接一環的層次感，像香水的味道。而不像有的雪茄，煙霧是亂七八糟的一堆，非常有貴族氣質，擁有你所期待的抽雪茄應有的所有美感。

　　1966年某天，卡斯特羅偶然抽了一根由他的侍衛所購買的散裝手卷雪茄，發覺無論口感還是香氣都非常出眾，於是便吩咐侍衛聘請那位卷煙工人愛德華多利柏拉當卡斯特羅專用的雪茄捲制師。此後，愛德華多一直在哈瓦那近郊的一幢義大利式豪宅內替卡斯特羅捲制雪茄，並且受到嚴密保護。這個專供總統、高官及外賓享用的極品雪茄一直都沒有命名，到了1968年才正式命名為 Cohiba ，他出產三種卡斯特羅最喜愛的尺寸，分別為 Lancero 、 Corona Especiale 和 Penetela 。

　　古巴是歐洲人發現煙草的地方，至今古巴雪茄就是上等雪茄的象徵。美國對古巴經濟製裁這麼多年，也只有一樣東西是無法禁運的，那就是雪茄。

　　高斯巴牌雪茄更是古巴雪茄的極品，在雪茄業的權威雜誌——美國《Cigar Africionabo》(《雪茄迷》)中，高斯巴始終位居雪茄掃仁名榜前列。

　　高斯巴一誕生就成為古巴政府的禮品，被送給各國的總統和外交使節。直到1982年後，高斯巴雪茄開始商業化生產，但購買者仍需得到授權方可買到。隨著產量的逐年提高，高斯巴得以銷售到世界各地，成為世界雪茄迷們的新寵。

　　製作高品質的雪茄首先要選擇好的品種在適宜的地方種植。煙葉採摘下來，經烘乾、發酵、整平、存放，然後挑選煙葉製作雪茄，其間大約要經歷3年時間，80餘道工序。捲雪茄用的煙葉外層與內層是不相同的，外包煙葉要挑選葉薄、油份大而有光澤的品種，這樣雪茄的外形才會漂亮而且燃燒得好。雪茄的內層又分為Ligero、seco、volado，它們分別是產生沉醉感，製造芳香和助燃的部分，Ligero是雪茄的靈魂所在，雪茄50％的味道取決於它。

　　不同部分的煙草往往來自不同產地。雖然Cohiba是古巴最好的雪茄，卡斯特羅抽的雪茄並不是Cohiba，只是它也是在同一間工廠里製造，但煙葉由阿維利諾•拉瑞先生親自挑選，單獨發酵，並存放在單獨的地方，捲雪茄的工人在特別的保護下工作，稱得上是“雪茄中的雪茄”，味道司仁常香醇。

　　目前，生產Cohiba的工廠有職工200餘名，每人每天捲90—100支雪茄。高斯巴六種最著名的雪茄品種是Lanceros、Esplendido、Coronas Especial、Robusto Exquisito、Panetela。

　　高斯巴的原則是精選再精選，所選用的煙葉皆是上乘之選，同時必定收藏至完美無瑕才推出，產量稀有，更顯珍貴。其濃淡隨粗細而定，從外型纖細風味清醇的Panatela到濃烈的Robustos，高斯巴始終是雪茄愛好者最鐘情的選擇。

　　精選再精選的世界上最好的雪茄．有圓滑和豐富的煙味，撩人的巧克力和咖啡香迷倒不少懂得享受人生的紳士淑女，珍貴的Cohiba，是“難忘的時刻”的最佳選擇。

　　Cohíba began with the cigars smoked by a bodyguard of Fidel Castro's named Bienvenido "Chicho" Perez. Castro noticed he often smoked a "very aromatic, very nice" cigar. When asked by Castro what brand he smoked, he replied that it was rolled by a friend of his who would give him some of these special cigars as gifts.

　　The man in question was a cigar roller working at the La Corona factory in Havana named Eduardo Rivera. Castro approached Rivera about rolling cigars for him personally and set him up with five other rollers in a former diplomatic mansion in a suburb of Havana known as El Laguito (Spanish for "the little lake"). Later, the factory became the first cigar factory to be staffed entirely by women torcedoras (cigar rollers).

　　The cigars were reserved for Castro himself, other high-ranking Cuban officials, and were commonly presented to foreign dignitaries as gifts. Castro himself is reputed to have been particularly fond of the long, thin cigars rolled for him, especially the sizes that would become the Lancero and Corona Especial.

　　To coincide with the 1982 World Cup being held in Spain, Castro decided to release his personal cigars as a premium cigar brand for public consumption. When it was first launched in 1982, the Cohíba marque consisted of three vitolas or sizes: the Panetela, the Corona Especial, and the Lancero. In 1989, three more vitolas were added (the Robusto, the Exquisito, and the Espléndido) and together with the first three vitolas are referred to as the Línea Clásica.

　　In 1992, in comemoration of Christopher Columbus and his voyage to the Americas, Habanos SA launched the first sizes in what it calls the Línea 1492, with each size named for a century that has passed since Columbus' discovery. The initial launch included the Siglo I, Siglo II, Siglo III, Siglo IV, and Siglo V, with a Siglo VI added in 2002. A long-standing rumor is that the original Línea 1492 was a replacement for the Davidoff marque that recently ceased production in Cuba (as each of the first five "Siglos" corresponded to a size in the Davidoff line-up).

　　Outside of the regular production lineup, Habanos SA regularly releases limited release Cohíba cigars for such events as the annual Habanos Festival, brand anniversaries, and their annual Edición Limitada release of limited edition special sizes of their various cigar brands wrapped in a darker vintage leaf.

　　Cohíba also produces two machine-made cigarillos: the Mini and the Club.

　　Habanos SA also leveraged the renowned Cohiba brandname throughout the years and have produced Cohiba cigarettes since 1987 and Extra Cohiba Cognac since 1999.

　　As of late 2006, Cohíba has released four different Edición Limitada Cohíbas: the Pirámide in 2001, the Double Corona in 2003, the Sublime in 2004, and a remake of the Pirámide in 2006.