Enjoy The Excellent Montecristo Cigar

In order to enjoy a Montecristo cigar, you need to ensure that you have preserved it at the right temperature, cut and lit it well as well as if accompany it by a snifter of cognac in which you can dip the end part occasionally before pulling a smoke. You may also like to read the novel ‘ The Count Of Monte Cristo’ by Alexander Dumas, just so you can be on the same spirit and mind with the maker and cigar rollers of this famous brand.

Cigars just like anything else today are branded according to their quality, flavor and aroma; their reputation coming solely from the cigar aficionados who rate them by not only the tobacco used, which of course is the main ingredient, but also the tobacco leaf used to roll it in, the roller, the company who makes it and last but not least the name it carries.

Montecristo cigars were named after the famous novel written by Alexander Dumas, which is ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’, It is said that in the factory, where the cigars were being rolled, the novel was read out loud for the enjoyment of the rollers many times; the story of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is of love and revenge and thus, bringing a lot of passion and emotion out on the rollers of the cigars. In 1935, Menende, Garcia and y Cia, who already owned a cigar factory known as the H. Upmann decided to create their own brand of cigars and name them Montecristo cigars. The quality of the Montecristo cigars spoke for themselves and therefore they become famous overnight.

There are two main sources that produce the Montecristo cigars today and they are one in Cuba by Habanos SA and the other in the Dominican Republic by Altadis SA. Cuban cigars are illegal in the US therefore the only Montecristo cigars you will get will be the one made in the Dominic Republic.

Different types of Montecristo Cigars

During the years due to its huge success around the world there are a number of different types, shapes and sizes of Montecristo cigars that were created and they are: the hand rolled Cuban Montecristos are No 1 through No 5 made in different sizes, Especial No1 and No 2; Joyita, Tubo, Petit Tubo and Edmundo. Limited edition Montecristos are: Double Corona and Robusto in 2001, C in 2003, D in 2005 and Robusto in 2006. Special Edition of the Montecristo cigar was the Millennium Reserve Robusto (or Rothschild) and B. Montecristo cigars can also be found in mini series under the following brands: the Mini, The Club and the Purito.