The reusable expression
A canonical combination of brand, product line, blend, and vitola—the identity shared across discovery, learning, reviews, verification, and market evidence.
The Hojavía Data Model · Working Draft 0.1
A cigar is never only a row in an inventory.
It is people, place, agriculture, time, craft, commercial history, and collector experience. Hojavía connects those relationships without losing the clarity a new collector needs.
What Hojavía means by “a cigar”
The historical context
A product placed into time, geography, factory, edition, packaging, band, MSRP, and distribution history.
The collector’s private record
One or more physical cigars acquired or managed together, with private quantity, cost, storage, provenance, and activity.
The identity ladder
Understand the cigar one relationship at a time.
These layers remain distinct even when the industry uses the same word for several of them. That discipline lets Hojavía preserve expert detail without overwhelming a beginner.
- 01
Organization
Who owns, produces, imports, distributes, or represents it?
- 02
Brand and line
Which cigar house and named family does it belong to?
- 03
Blend and vitola
What tobacco, construction, size, and shape define the expression?
- 04
Release and edition
When, where, and in what production context did it appear?
- 05
Packaging and artifact
Which box, band, seal, code, or physical cigar can be observed?
- 06
Ownership lot
Which cigars belong to this collector, and what is their private history?
A living knowledge system
Facts become meaningful through connection.
One shared cigar identity can support collector experiences across Discover, Vault, Review, Market, Verify, Community, Learn, and Hojavía AI.
People and craft
Farmers, agronomists, blenders, rollers, founders, factory teams, retailers, historians, and collectors remain connected to the work they contributed.
- Tobacco and place
- Factories and production roles
- Interviews and historical sources
The collector’s record
The shared cigar identity stays separate from private ownership, acquisition, storage, journal, valuation, and legacy information.
- Boxes and loose cigars
- Humidors and aging
- Collection timelines and provenance
Claims and evidence
Every meaningful claim can carry a source, date, trust level, confidence, commercial disclosure, and correction history.
- Official facts and revisions
- Market observations
- Disagreement without hidden uncertainty
Trust travels with the record
Collectors should always know what they are reading.
Source, confidence, observation date, corrections, disagreement, and commercial influence are part of the information—not labels added after publication.
Unknown is better than incorrect. Visible uncertainty is stronger than invented precision.
Official
Information supplied or confirmed by an authorized manufacturer or organization.
Verified historical
History confirmed through multiple trusted or primary sources.
Expert
Attributable knowledge from a verified expert working in a relevant field.
Community
Collector experience, opinion, observation, review, and shared knowledge.
AI-assisted
An inference or recommendation derived from permitted data and clearly labeled as such.
Private by default
The shared catalog never owns the collector’s life.
Inventory, quantity, acquisition cost, exact storage, personal journals, behavior, photographs, valuations, and legacy instructions remain private unless the collector deliberately shares them.
- Publishing a review does not expose the private journal behind it.
- Sharing a collection view does not reveal cost or exact storage.
- Hojavía AI uses only the context permitted for the interaction.
- Collectors can inspect, correct, remove, and export personal context.
History without silent overwrite
Current state is a view of what happened—not a replacement for it.
Blend, factory, band, packaging, MSRP, and distribution changes retain effective dates and prior states.
Purchases, smokes, gifts, transfers, storage moves, milestones, and corrections form an enduring timeline.
Claims can be challenged, corrected, superseded, or left visibly disputed without erasing the record.
Why this matters
Rigorous enough to earn trust. Human enough to preserve meaning.
A beginner can begin with the name and the story. An advanced collector can examine blend revisions, packaging evidence, market observations, provenance, and source history. Both are learning from the same trusted record.