Featured Cigars - April 2013

Maker of some of the finest brand names in the business—including Indian Tabac,, Cameroon Legend and Fittipaldi—the Augusto Reyes family has been in the tobacco and cigar world for over 150 years. The Nativo is worthy of the family name and a heritage that harks back to pre-Castro Cuba. Fans of flavorful medium-mild cigars are in for a treat. The Nativo has a wonderful Criollo 98 seed wrapper that’s oily to the touch and an Olor binder. The...

In seven years, Mariana and Nestor Miranda have turned the Miami Cigar Company into a highly respected cigar production and distribution player in the tobacco industry. High school sweethearts from the town of Holguín, Cuba, the Mirandas fled their homeland in the years following Fidel Castro's rise to power. Nestor left for the United States in 1962, when he enlisted in the Army and was stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Talk about a serious...

The Toraño family has been around for over ninety years making some of the most luxurious cigars. It all started in 1916 when Don Santiago Toraño immigrated to Cuba from Spain. He immediately started working with the tobacco leaf and became a broker for the prized crop. His growing family all became involved with the tobacco and eventually became one of the most well known and respected growers of the Cuban tobacco leaf, owning over 17 farms.

Raised in Cuba, Abdel “A.J.” Fernandez has produced cigars for other cigar makers, such as, Padilla, Gurkha, Rocky Patel, and Greycliff, just to name a few. Deciding to break out with his own line of cigars, he has created the San Lotano line that is produced in his Esteli, Nicaragua factory – which produces roughly nine million cigars annually! The San Lotano Connecticut is a recreation that once was a pre-Castro Cuban line that his ...

Released in October 2010 by General Cigar, the La Gloria Cubana Serie N is the sister brand to the already popular La Gloria Cubana Serie R line. Wanting a richer and bolder cigar to add to the lineup, General Cigar’s production manager of manufacturing, Yuri Guillen, created this beauty with the help of Michael Giannini and Rick Rodriguez – collectively known as Team La Gloria Cubana. Starting with a pitch-black Capa Oscura wrapper, it is