Don Jaime Partagas started making
premium cigars in 1827 in a small shop in downtown Havana and founded the partagas
cigar brand in 1845. Winner of three gold medals in international expositions
between 1867 and 1884, the brawny powerful flavours of the Partagas cigar
were to be further refined and developed by two of the greatest cigar masters,
Ramon Cifuentes and his son upon the death of Don Jaime Partagas. At the dawn
of the twentieth century, the factory was turning out between 18 and 20 million
cigars a year.
The Partagas
cigar-making factory, the biggest existing on the island, is still situated
in downtown Havana and continues to produce to this day one of the world's best
Cuban premium cigars. Turning out 30,000 of the world's finest partagas cigars
per day, the manufacturing process is a jealously guarded secret.
World
renowned among serious cigar smokers, the partagas cigar is truly an icon
of finely hand-made Cuban cigars and its earthy flavours are the full, rich choice
of the true Cuban cigar aficionado.
