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Cigar History and Production
Cigar 101
All you ever need to know about Trinidad Brand of Cigars
Trinidad Cigars Background and History The Trinidad Fundadores has been exclusively produced for Fidel Castro since 1980 – so the story goes. For many years, the only boxes of the cigars that were allowed to
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All you ever need to know about Sancho Panza Brand Cigars
Sancho Panza Cigars The brand of Sancho Panza cigars is named after the simple farmer recruited as a squire by the fictional Don Quixote in the famous 1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It may
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All you ever need to know about San Cristobal de Le Habana Brand Cigars
San Cristobal Cigars The San Cristobal is the latest, and considered quite possibly to be the last new series of Cuban brand cigars. Launched in 1996, the brand was named after the original name of
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All you ever need to know about Rafael Gonzalez Brand Cigars
The Rafael Gonzalez brand cigar dates back to approximately 1928. The cigar originally went by the name La Flor de Marquez. Rafael Gonzalez became the registered trademark of the cigar in 1936. The Sociedad El
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All you ever need to know about Quintero Brand Cigars
Along with his brothers, Augustin Quintero got involved in the tobacco industry during the 1920s. They made their humble beginnings in their Cuban hometown of Cienfuegos in the province of Las Villas. The strong flavor
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All you ever need to know about La Gloria Cubana Brand Cigars
The La Gloria Cubana cigars are among the oldest Cuban cigars. The Sociedad Cabanas y Castro created the brand in 1885 and sold it twenty years later, in 1905 to Jose F. Rocha. Rocha moved
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All you ever need to know about Fonseca Brand Cigars
[two_third last=”no”] The Fonseca is a truly exquisite cigar. It is the only Cuban cigar that comes wrapped in a delicate, silk-like paper. Cigar aficionados believe that it is this superior wrapping that provides the
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All you ever need to know about El Rey del Mundo Brand Cigars
The El Rey del Mundo (translated to English means King of the World) brand cigars are believed to be from the same creator as the Sancho Panza, Emilio Ohmstedt, a German businessman, in 1848. There