Por Larranaga (cigar brand)

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Por Larrañaga is the name of two Cuban cigar brands: one produced in Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced in the Dominican Republic and Honduras for Altadis.

The Por Larrañaga logo

1 History
2 Vitolas in the Cuban Por Larrañaga Line
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Por Larrañaga was registered in 1834 by Ignacio Larrañaga. By the end of the 19th century, Por Larrañaga had become a well-known premium cigar brand producing both expensive and inexpensive cigars. In 1925, Por Larrañaga became the first factory to make machine-made cigars which soon resulted in a boycott by factory workers. At the time of the revolution, Por Larrañaga was the sixth largest producing Cuban brand.

Up until the 1970s, Por Larrañaga remained a respectable and popular premium cigar brand. In the 1980s production fell dramatically and due to trademark litigation in the 1990s, export of the brand was reduced to only a few countries. Today the brand has been reduced to almost entirely machine-made or hand-finished and is mainly sold in Canada and the Middle East.

In 2006, Habanos produced a few thousand boxes of Por Larrañaga Lonsdales (a discontinued vitola much mourned by aficionados of the brand) for release in Germany. The cigars were packaged in 25-count dress boxes and marked with a special second band that read "Exclusivo Alemania" (Germany Exclusive).

Cigar Aficionado's December 2006 issue reviewed its first Por Larrañaga outside of its "Connoisseur's Corner". The petit corona selected scored an impressive 91.

[edit] Vitolas in the Cuban Por Larrañaga Line

The following list of vitolas (sizes) within the Por Larrañaga line lists their measurements in English and metric and their vitolas de galera (factory name). Of note is the fact that, though Juanitos are listed as a vitola still in production, few cigar smokers have seen them in the last few years.

Hand-Made Vitolas