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Montecristo is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced in the Dominican Republic for the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly Altadis SA. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Four cigars of different brands (from top: H. Upmann, Montecristo, Macanudo, Romeo y Julieta) An airtight cigar storage tube and a double guillotine-style cutter Individual Woodtip Swisher Sweets Cigar A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco, one end of which is ignited so that...
Habanos SA is the arm of the Cuban state tobacco monopoly, Cubatabaco, that controls the promotion, distribution, and exportation of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide. ...
Altadis S.A., (IBEX-35:ALT) is a multinational purveyor and manufacturer of cigarettes, tobacco and cigars. ...
History The Montecristo brand was created in 1935 by Menéndez, García y Cía, then the owners of the popular H. Upmann brand of cigars. Having just purchased the H. Upmann marque from J. Frankau & Co., Menéndez and García decided to produce their own subset of the regular H. Upmann line, called the H. Upmann Montecristo Selection. H. Upmann is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced in the Dominican Republic for the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly Altadis SA. The H. Upmann logo // History This marque...
The name for the brand was inspired by the Alexandre Dumas, père novel The Count of Monte Cristo, which was supposedly a very popular choice among the torcedores (cigar rollers) in their factory to have read by the lector on the rolling floor. Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. ...
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On the insistence of the John Hunter firm of Great Britain (which would later merge with J. Frankau & Co. to form Hunter & Frankau, Britain's sole importer of Cuban cigars to this day), the name was shortened to simply Montecristo and a new logo was designed for it: the yellow and red "crossed swords" logo the brand still bears today.
Through the efforts of Alfred Dunhill, Ltd., the Montecristo brand became incredibly popular worldwide and to this day accounts for roughly 50% of Habanos SA's worldwide cigar sales, making it the most popular Cuban cigar in the world. After the Cuban Revolution and the nationalization of the cigar industry in Cuba in 1961, Menéndez and García fled to the Canary Islands where they re-established the brand, but were later forced to quit due to copyright disputes with Cubatabaco. In the mid-1970s, the operation was moved to La Romana in the Dominican Republic and released for the US market, where Cuba's rights to the brand weren't recognized due to the embargo. Menéndez, García, y Cía is now owned by Altadis SA, who controls its distribution and marketing in the United States. Alfred Dunhill, Ltd. ...
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Cubatabaco, short for Empresa Cubana del Tabaco, is the Cuban state tobacco monopoly. ...
La Romana is a province of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of its capital. ...
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The original line had only five numbered sizes, with a tubed cigar added during the 1940s, but otherwise remained unchanged until after nationalization. With Menendez and Garcia gone after 1959, one of the top grade torcedores, José Manuel Gonzalez, was promoted to floor manager and proceeded to breathe new life into the brand. In the 1970s and 1980s, five new sizes were added: the A, the Especial No. 1 and 2, the Joyita, and the Petit Tubo. Three other sizes, the Montecristo No. 6, No. 7, and B, were released but subsequently discontinued, though the B can occasionally be found in very small releases each year in Cuba.
Through the 1970s and 1980s, Montecristo continued to rise in popularity among cigar smokers and firmly entrenched itself as one of Cuba's top selling cigar lines. The Montecristo No. 4 is, itself, the most popular cigar in the world market. Montecristo No. ...
In 2004, another new edition to the regular line was made with the Edmundo, a large robusto-sized cigar, named for the hero of Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantès.
Montecristo is also regularly chosen to be featured in Habanos SA's annual Edición Limitada selection of cigars with a darker vintage wrapper and there are numerous limited edition releases of special Montecristo cigars for special occasions, anniversaries, the annual Habanos Festival, charities, etc.
Montecristo also produces three machine-made cigarillos: the Mini, the Club, and the Purito. A pack of cigarillos A cigarillo (Spanish for cigarette, pronounced see-gah-ree-yoh in Spanish and see-gah-ree-loh in English) is a short, narrow cigar. ...
Vitolas in the Cuban Montecristo Line
A box of Montecristo Joyitas The following list of vitolas (sizes) within the Montecristo line lists their measurements in English and metric, their vitolas de galera (factory name), and their conventional name in American cigar slang. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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A box of Box-Pressed cigars Box-Pressed (or Square-pressed) cigars are usually packed in two layers in a wide flat box (sometimes called a Flat Top or 13-topper ) that has an attatched flip or hinged lid, and is usually made of paper-covered wood or cardboard(as...
In Cuban cigar production, the factory name or vitola de galera is a standard name given to the size of the cigar across all manufacturers. ...
Hand-Made Vitolas
- No. 1 - 6 1/2" x 42 (165 x 16.67 mm) Cervantes, a lonsdale
- No. 2 - 6 1/8" x 52 (156 x 20.64 mm) Pirámide, a pyramid or torpedo
- No. 3 - 5 5/8" x 42 (142 x 16.67 mm) Corona, a corona
- No. 4 - 5 1/8" x 42 (129 x 16.67 mm) Mareva, a petit corona
- No. 5 - 4" x 40 (102 x 15.87 mm) Perla, a tres petit corona
- A - 9 1/4" x 47 (235 x 18.65 mm) Gran Corona, a presidente or giant
- Especial No. 1 - 7 1/2" x 38 (192 x 15.08 mm) Laguito No. 1, a long panetela
- Especial No. 2 - 6" x 38 (152 x 15.08 mm) Laguito No. 2, a panetela
- Joyita - 4 1/2" x 26 (115 x 10.32 mm) Laguito No. 3, a cigarillo
- Tubo - 6 1/8" x 42 (155 x 16.67 mm) Corona Grande, a long corona
- Petit Tubo - 5 1/8" x 42 (129 x 16.67 mm) Mareva, a petit corona
- Edmundo - 5 3/8" x 52 (135 x 20.64 mm) Edmundo, a robusto
Edición Limitada Releases - Double Corona (2001) - 7 5/8" x 49 (194 x 19.45 mm) Prominente, a double corona
- Robusto (2001) - 4 7/8" x 50 (124 x 19.84 mm) Robusto, a robusto or rothschild
- C (2003) - 5 5/8" x 46 (143 x 18.26 mm) Corona Gorda, a toro
- D (2005) - 6 3/4" x 43 (170 x 17.07 mm) Dalia, a lonsdale
- Robusto (2006) - 4 7/8" x 50 (124 x 19.84 mm) Robusto, a robusto or rothschild
Special Releases - Millennium Reserve Robusto - 4 7/8" x 50 (124 x 19.84 mm) Robusto, a robusto or rothschild
- B - 5 3/8" x 42 (135 x 16.67 mm) Cosaco, a corona
Trivia - Montecristo cigars are mentioned in the Super Furry Animals song, "Hermann Loves Pauline".
- Montecristo cigars are mentioned in The Fratellis song, "The Gutterati?" during the chorus.
- Montecristo cigars are the favorite of wealthy gangster Norman Kubritz in the novel Summer of the Vigilantes by Christopher Poole
- In 1992 film Scent Of A Woman, Al Pacino, in the role of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, orders Chris O'Donnell (playing Charlie Simms, his assistant and caretaker ) to fetch him Montecristo No. 1.
- Montecristo cigars (esp. number 4) were the favourite of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara.
- In an episode of the Sopranos, Tony Soprano offers Dr. Cusamano a box of Montecristos as a gift.
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- Gene Hackman in the movie Crimson Tide is seen throughout the movie with a No.2
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References - Nee, Min Ron - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars (2003, Reprinted: 2005), ISBN 3-9809308-2-3
See also In those cases where two or more brands from different countries bear the same name, the one mentioned is the original one (e. ...
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