The president of Habanos SA, Francisco Linares officially launched the Cuaba brand of cigars on Nov. 19, 1996. The official launch was held in London, England at the Claridge Hotel. The brand was presented as the “perfect” line of cigars. The Cuaba was launched as an effort to revive the figuardo shaped cigar. This style…
Habanaos SA introduced two new lines during the 1990s. The Vegas Robaina brand was the second of the two, and is named after Don Alejandro Robaina. The Don became famous for growing premium wrapping leaves on his farms in the Vuelta Abajo region, also known as Pinar del Rio, on the island of Cuba. The…
As with most of the Habanos brands of cigars, Romeo y Julieta cigars are authentically produced in Cuba using real Cuban tobacco from the pristine tobacco fields of the country, and in the Dominican Republic using tobacco from that country. This double production is largely due to the import embargoes preventing Cuban products from being…
Punch brand cigars are produced for the state tobacco company, Habanos SA in Cuba and separately for a cigar company in Honduras, which produces tobacco products for customers in the United States since most Cuban cigars can not be sold in that country. The Cuban cigars use only the finest leaves grown the lush Vuelta…
Partagas brand cigars are one of the oldest brand of cigars still in existence. They were established in 1845 in Havana, Cuba. Today, the name is used by two separate and competing cigar companies. One is the famous state-owned Habanos SA in Cuba and the other is the General Cigar Company headquartered in the Dominican…
Montecristo brand of cigars are produced in Cuba by Habanos SA, the state owned tobacco company. However, cigars of the same name are also produced in the Dominican Republic by Altadis, the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly. History of the Montecristo Alonso Menendez bought the Particulares Factory in July of 1935. Although the Byron brand of cigars…
Cuban brand cigars are famous all over the world, and right at the top of the list among cigar aficionados is the H. Upmann brand which dates all the way back to 1844. One of the most famous moments in the life this cigar was in 1961, on the evening before the American declaration of…
Two different premium cigar brands use the name Hoyo de Monterrey. One is produced for the tobacco company owned by the state, Habanos SA on the island of Cuba, and the other cigars using this brand are produced by the General Cigar Company in Honduras. The Cuban cigars use premium tobacco grown in the lush…
The Jose L Piedra brand cigar is a popular brand distributed and consumed domestically in Cuba and now also sold in global markets. The line is produced by machine and by hand in the regional Jose L Piedra cigar company in Santa Clara. This is one of the most inexpensive of all Cuban cigars and…