H. Upmann Super Magnum Book /20: A Cuban Chapter Bound in Cedar
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There is a quiet theatre to the way certain Cuban cigars arrive in the world, and the H. Upmann Super Magnum Book /20 belongs firmly to that tradition. Conceived for the celebrated Colección Habanos series, this is an edition that announces its intentions before a single band is admired: it is presented as a book, a humidor shaped like a bound volume, holding twenty cigars within its covers. To open it is to open a chapter rather than a box, and the gesture carries all the deliberate ceremony that the H. Upmann name has long cultivated.
The Colección Habanos series exists to mark the exceptional, and the Super Magnum Book takes its place among the most exclusive of Cuban releases. Available only through La Casa del Habano boutiques the world over, it is an object destined for those who read the language of tobacco slowly, savouring the pauses as much as the phrases.
The Craft of the Volume
What distinguishes this edition is the marriage of two disciplines: the rolling of the cigar and the making of the vessel that houses it. The book form is no mere flourish. It transforms the humidor into a piece of furniture for the library, an heirloom that sits comfortably among first editions and leather spines. The twenty cigars it protects rest as pages might, ordered and expectant, each one a continuation of the same narrative. In this, the Super Magnum Book honours the enduring H. Upmann reputation for cigars of measured, cultured character.
An Atmosphere to Be Read
One imagines the setting it invites: a study at dusk, the lamplight low, a glass poured and left to breathe. The Super Magnum is a generous format, a companion for the long conversation and the longer silence. To draw upon it is to give oneself time — the kind of unhurried attention that Cuba has always asked of its admirers. The book, once closed again, keeps its remaining chapters safe until the reader returns.
Few releases so fully unite the pleasure of the cigar with the pleasure of possession. The H. Upmann Super Magnum Book /20 is, in the end, a story worth returning to.
