Quintero (cigar)

Brand of premium cigars produced in Cuba

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Quintero

Product type| Cigar
Owner| Imperial Brands
Produced by| Habanos S.A.
Country| Cuba
Introduced| 1924; 101 years ago (1924)
Related brands| Cohiba
Montecristo
Romeo y Julieta
Website| habanos.com/quintero
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1

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

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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,[1] 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

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1. ^ Savona, David, The Exodus, Cigar Aficionado, Nov/Dec. 2002

## External links

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* Official website
* Quintero Cigars Reviews Archived 2007-06-06 at the Wayback Machine

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Cigars|

* Backwoods
* Cohiba2
* Dutch Masters
* H. Upmann2
* Henry Clay
* Montecristo2
* Phillies
* Por Larrañaga2
* Quintero2
* Romeo y Julieta2
* Trinidad2

Other|

* Blu
* Drum
* Golden Virginia
* Rizla
* Skruf Snus
* White Ox

Subsidiaries|

* Altadis
* Habanos3
* ITG Brands4
* Reemtsma

Predecessors|

* British-Australasian Tobacco Company
* Churchman's
* Lambert & Butler
* Stephen Mitchell & Son
* W.D. & H.O. Wills
* William Clarke & Son

People|

* George Alfred Wills
* William Wills

1Australia only; 2Brands of Habanos, a 50:50 joint venture between Imperial Tobacco and Cubatabaco; 350% share; 4 formerly, "Commonwealth Brands"

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