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Encyclopedia > Cigar brands

In those cases where two or more brands from different countries bear the same name, the one mentioned is the original one (e.g., Montecristo is listed under Cuba, although there exists a Dominican and a Mexican brand with the same name).

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Brazil

  • Dona Flor
  • Alonzo Menendez
  • Angelina
  • Dannemann and Dannemann Artist Line
  • Le Cigar
  • Aquarius
  • Augusta (very dufficult to find, once this brand is not sold in tobaccos shops, only in restaurants and coffes shops)
  • DaMata
  • Dom Porfirio
  • Quiteria
  • Siboney (a brazilian cigar made with mexican and equatorian tobacco, is a new brand, very strong flavour compared with smoth brazilian cigars)
  • Caravelas
  • Delectados
  • Suerdieck

Cuba

  • Bolivar- named in honour of Simón Bolívar
  • Cohiba - named so after the native Cuban word for the verb "to smoke". This famed brand was Fidel's choice in the 70s and 80s. Initially developed by Avelino Lara now of Graycliff in Nassau.
  • El Rey del Mundo
  • Hoyo de Monterrey
  • La Gloria Cubana
  • Montecristo - named in honour of Alexandre Dumas, from his novel The Count of Monte Cristo. The brand's logo includes swords (epées) like the ones employed by the King's men in The Three Musketeers, also a Dumas novel.
  • Partagas - after company founder Don Jaime Partagas.
  • Punch - named after the British humour magazine.
  • Romeo y Julieta - the name comes from the Spanish translation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Favored by Winston Churchill.
  • San Cristobal de la Habana - this was the original name of the city of Havana when it was founded by the Spanish.
  • Sancho Panza - the name comes from a character in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.
  • Vegas Robaina - named after Alejandro Robaina. A vega is a tobacco plantation in Cuba. The only Cuban cigar named after a living person.
  • H. Upmann - one of the least expensive, high-quality cigars in Cuba. Both the choice of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Fidel Castro.
  • Quintero
  • Trinidad - originally available in only one size (the Fundador), now four vitolas are available.
  • Cuaba
  • Fonseca
  • Diplomaticos
  • Vegueros
  • Juan Lopez
  • Quai d'Orsay - named after the French Foreign Office (located in Paris at the Quai d'Orsay). This brand is dedicated to the French market exclusively, and is known (and appreciated) for its smoothness

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830) was a South American revolutionary leader. ... Cohiba is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of Cuba, and the other produced in the Dominican Republic (since the Cuban Revolution). ... The Taíno are the pre-Hispanic Amerindian inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, which includes Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Bahamas. ... For information about smoking tobacco, see tobacco smoking. ... Alexandre Dumas redirects here. ... Le comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... DArtagnan and the Musketeers The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Look up Punch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Punch can refer to: Punch from Punch and Judy. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young lovers. ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... Havana (Spanish: San Cristóbal de La Habana; UN/LOCODE: Habana (CU HAV)) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Don Quixote de la Mancha (spelled Don Quijote in modern Spanish) (IPA: ) is a novel by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ... Che Guevara Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. ... Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has been the leader of Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista, and transformed Cuba into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. ...

Dominican Republic

  • Arturo Fuente - after the founder of the company.
  • Ashton
  • AVO - after company founder, former jazz pianist Avo Uvezian.
  • Casa Blanca
  • Cohiba
  • Cuesta-Rey
  • Davidoff
  • Dominique
  • Don Diego
  • Dunhill
  • J.R. Tobacco
  • Juan Clemente
  • Los Libertadores
  • Macanudo
  • Montecruz
  • Nat Sherman
  • Paul Garmiriam
  • Primo Del Rey
  • Royal Jamaican
  • The Griffin's
  • Troya

Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...

Honduras

  • Aliados
  • Baccarat
  • CAO
  • Don Lino
  • Don Mateo
  • Don Tomas
  • Encanto
  • Habana
  • Las Cabrillas
  • Thomas Hinds
  • Zino
  • Flor de Copan
  • Flor de Selva

Mexico

  • Hoja de Mexicali
  • Hoja de Oro
  • Matacan
  • Te-Amo - The name means "I love you" in Spanish.

Nicaragua

  • Flor de Jalapa
  • Padron
  • Joya de NIcaragua
  • Perdomo

United States

  • Benedit
  • Don Pablo
  • Garcia Y Vega
  • La Gloria Cubana

External links

http://www.cigargroup.com/cigardb.htm


See also: List of fictional cigars A fictional brand is a non-existing brand used in artistic or entertainment productions — paintings, books, comics, movies, TV serials, etc. ...


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