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Quintero (cigar)
Brand of premium cigars produced in Cuba
Brand of premium cigars produced in Cuba
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Quintero |
| logo | Quintero cigars logo.png |
| producttype | Cigar |
| currentowner | Imperial Brands |
| producedby | Habanos S.A. |
| country | Cuba |
| introduced | |
| related | Cohiba |
| Montecristo | |
| Romeo y Julieta | |
| website | |
| module | |
| module1 | |
| footnotes | Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 |
Montecristo Romeo y Julieta
Quintero is a cigar brand owned by British conglomerate Imperial Brands. The cigars are produced in Cuba by Habanos S.A., a state-owned tobacco company.
History
The Quintero cigar brand was created as Quintero y Hermanos or Quintero and Brothers, when Agustín Quintero and his four brothers opened a small cigar factory in the town of Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1924 and began producing a handmade cigar.
Quintero is popular in Cuba and in Spain. By the 1940s, Quintero y Hermanos had opened a larger rolling factory in Havana, and had begun using prime tobaccos from the Vuelta Abajo region.
It the early 1960s, after Fidel Castro nationalized the Cuban cigar industry, Quintero became a primarily machine-made cigar, and most of the handmade sizes were dropped in favor of machine-made or hand-finished cigars using short filler tobaccos. For many years, Quintero was the only Cuban machine-made brand to be globally marketed by Habanos SA.
In 2002, as part of a marketing strategy to promote Cuban cigars, the Cuban government marketing organization, Habanos S.A. chose to discontinue machine-made cigars in favor of handmade versions.
References
References
- Savona, David, The Exodus, Cigar Aficionado, Nov/Dec. 2002
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