La Aroma de Cuba
A Nicaraguan brand blended by Pepin and Jaime Garcia for Ashton
- Family
- Produced by the Garcia family through My Father Cigars
- Made in
- Nicaragua
- Factory
- Tabacalera Cubana S.A. (TACUBA), Estelí, Nicaragua
- Lines here
- 5
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The house
The story of La Aroma de Cuba
La Aroma de Cuba is identified among the client brands made for Ashton by the Garcia family’s Nicaraguan operation. The listed lines include Edicion Especial, New Blend and Mi Amor.
José “Pepin” Garcia spent forty years in Cuba as a cigar roller and blender, attaining the Class 8 Master rank. He left Cuba in 2001 and established El Rey de los Habanos in Miami in 2002. Growing demand led the company to establish Tabacalera Cubana S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua, in June 2006; the broader company name later became My Father Cigars.
Pepin’s son Jaime Garcia also works as a blender for La Aroma de Cuba. The Connecticut line is credited jointly to Pepin and Jaime, manufactured by My Father Cigars and made in Nicaragua.
Milestones
Moments that made the house
- 2001
Pepin leaves Cuba
After forty years working with tobacco in Cuba, Pepin Garcia emigrated first to Nicaragua and then to Miami.
- 2002
Miami company established
Pepin Garcia began El Rey de los Habanos, Inc. in Miami in June.
- 2006
Estelí factory established
Tabacalera Cubana S.A. was established in Estelí to meet growing demand and became the listed producer of La Aroma de Cuba lines for Ashton.
Craft
How they make them
La Aroma de Cuba Connecticut uses Nicaraguan long-filler and binder tobaccos beneath an Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut-seed wrapper. Its tobacco is harvested on Garcia-family estates in Estelí, Jalapa and Condega and undergoes triple fermentation. The cigars are hand rolled with long filler. More broadly, cigars made at Garcia factories follow the Cuban style, receive a triple cap and are packed in boxes marked with the date of manufacture.
Details
Things most people don't know
- Family-grown leaf
- Connecticut-line tobacco is harvested on Garcia-family estates in Estelí, Jalapa and Condega.
- Triple fermentation
- The tobacco used for La Aroma de Cuba Connecticut undergoes a three-stage fermentation.
- Joint blenders
- Pepin and Jaime Garcia are both credited as blenders of La Aroma de Cuba Connecticut.
- Seven formats
- La Aroma de Cuba Connecticut is assembled in seven sizes.
- Dated boxes
- Every box produced at Garcia factories is marked with its manufacture date.
- Cuban-style finish
- Cigars made at Garcia factories are finished with a triple cap.
In the humidor
La Aroma de Cuba up close
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