Vegueros is the name of a brand of premium

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s produced on the island of

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for

Habanos SA Habanos S.A. is a Cuban manufacturing company of tobacco that controls the promotion, distribution, and export of premium cigars and other tobacco products for Cuba worldwide. It was established in 1994. Ownership of Habanos S.A. is split equal ...

History

In 1961, the Francisco Donatién Factory in the

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of Cuba began producing cigars for domestic consumption, in addition to the

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s it had been producing for years. These cigars were commonly rolled for national banquets and other public affairs and became colloquially known as ''Vegueros'', after the farmers and field hands that work on Cuba's

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and

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plantations. The first people outside of Cuba to become acquainted with these cigars were sight-seeing tourists on trips through Cuba's cigar tobacco-growing regions. In 1997, Habanos SA launched the cigars for export.

''Vitolas'' in the Vegueros line

The following list of vitolas de salida (commercial vitolas) within the Vegueros marque lists their size and ring gauge in Imperial (and Metric), their vitolas de galera (factory vitolas), and their common name in

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cigar slang. ''Hand-made Vitolas'' * Especial No. 1 - 7½" × 38 (191 × 15.08 mm), Laguito No. 1, a long panetela * Especial No. 2 - 6" × 38 (152 × 15.08 mm), Laguito No. 2, a panetela * Mareva - 5⅛" × 42 (130 × 16.67 mm), Mareva, a petit corona * Seoane - 4⅞" × 33 (124 × 13.10 mm), Seoane, a small panetela

References

* Nee, Min Ron - ''An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars'' (2003, Reprinted: 2005),

External links

Official website of Habanos S.A.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vegueros (Cigar) Habanos S.A. brands 1844 introductions

History

''Vitolas'' in the Vegueros line

See also

References

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