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Cuban cigar brands and brand names are among the most recognized and prestigious in the world. [19] Among them are Cohiba, Montecristo, Partagás, H. Upmann, La Gloria Cubana, Hoyo de Monterrey, Punch, and Romeo y Julieta. Due to an embargo on the import of Cuban cigars by the United States in 1960, difficulties with maintaining the integrity ...
Former Cuban cigar now produced in Honduras La Gloria Cubana: 1. Habanos S.A.; 2. General Cigar Company: Dueling Cuban and non-Cuban brands; non-Cuban made in the Dominican Republic The Griffins Davidoff: Imperial Tobacco Dominican Republic Guantanamera: H. Upmann: 1. Habanos S.A.; 2. Altadis: Cuban, and non-Cuban produced in the Dominican ...
The Cuban Cohiba brand was launched as a premium cigar brand into markets outside of the US in 1982 in conjunction with the 1982 World Cup held in Spain. [3] At the time of its first public launch, the Cohiba marque consisted of just three vitolas (sizes): the Panetela, the Corona Especial, and the Lancero.
There is a companion edition, the Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Havana Cigars which is similar, but includes information solely on the Cuban cigar brands. It is currently in its third edition (published 2005), but is not published every year (the 2nd edition was in 1998), and also includes information about how cigars are made in Cuba, a history of tobacco and Cuban brands, and details on ...
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The La Gloria Cubana brand was created in 1885 by the Sociedad Cabañas y Castro, then bought twenty years later in 1905 by José F. Rocha, who manufactured the brand from his factory at 364 Miguel Street in Havana. After Rocha died in 1954, the Cifuentes family bought both La Gloria Cubana and Bolivar from Rocha's former company.
A box of Cuban-made Partagás Shorts. Partagás is a brand name of cigars that are made by two independent & competing entities, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company; the other, containing no Cuban tobacco, produced in the Dominican Republic for General Cigar Company, a division of Scandinavian Tobacco Group of Denmark.
However, this new brand is completely unrelated and not a resurrection of the old brand. The brand initially launched with 4 cigars (El Morro, El Principe, La Fuerza, and La Punta). In 2004, to celebrate the brand's fifth anniversary, 3 additional cigars were produced for the V Anniversary Humidor and eventually released for public sale.