This famous brand, originated in 1845 not long after Jaime Partagas sailed from
Spain to Cuba. Yet the greatest chapters of Partagas history were written by two
other men, Ramón Cifuentes and the son who was named after him. Whether working
together or alone, it was those two great cigar masters who made Partagas the
leading Cuban cigar. Then in 196l, two years after Fidel Castro had seized
control of the Cuban government, Ramón Cifuentes was forced to flee the island.
Seventeen years later, however, he succeeded in creating his Partagas cigars
again, this time in the Dominican Republic, where the unmatched Cifuentes
tradition of cigar making remains alive and well.
The secret of today’s rich Partagas cigars lies in their wrapper leaves.
Grown in Cameroon, the Central West African country where the steaming,
sub-tropical climate unique to the fourth parallel is ideal for growing superb
wrapper leaves, the Cameroon wrapper has no equal for rich flavor. Indeed, Ramón
Cifuentes determined that he could begin producing his Partagas cigars again
only after he had discovered, years after the Cuban embargo had begun, that the
best wrapper leaves were being grown in Cameroon rather than Cuba. The result is
the richest of cigars with a deeply mellow taste.
