ROMEO Y JULIETA
Established in 1873, the Romeo y Julieta cigar brand once printed more than 2,000 cigar groups! The Romeos cigars are one of the most notable and famous of all of the Cuban cigar brands. More than 40 cigar shapes and sizes are created under the Romeo y Julieta cigar brand, some of which are viewed as the absolute best cigars in their size range. Romeo y Julieta cigars have won gold awards worldwide for both Cuban cigar taste and Cuban cigar quality. With such countless various sizes thus much tension on Cuban cigar creation because of overall interest, it is particularly great that the whole cigar brand of Romeo y Julieta keeps on being valued as one of totally top quality Cuban cigars.
Of specific notoriety are the Churchill sizes. As usual, an enormous box (25 or 50) of untubed Cuban cigars (there are many tubed variants) is an amazing decision, despite the fact that Romeo y Julieta tubed cigars are likewise among the best accessible. The Romeo y Julieta cigar brand is likewise credited with presenting the "Churchill" formed Cuban cigar, to pay tribute to the British Prime Minister. English legend guarantees that when Prime Minister Churchill would meet with unfamiliar heads of state, he would embed a fixed paperclip through the length of his Cuban cigar. As his cigar debris would develop longer and longer yet not fall, it is said that Churchill would alarm his frequently threatening visitors, permitting him to acquire a high ground during sensitive arrangements.
In 1875, the undertaking of Inocencio álvarez and Manín García made this cigar brand whose standing as a hand tailored gem in the craft of good cigar smoking would make it one of the pioneers on the worldwide Cuban cigar market. It is said that because of its name (identified with a romantic tale) Romeo y Julieta has become one of the most well known cigar brands on the planet.
Romeo y Julieta brand has been granted with a few brilliant awards in various Universal Exhibitions as Antwerp (1885), Paris (1889 and 1900) and Brussels (1897). In 1897, the Romeo y Julieta brand was purchased by the Association Rodríguez-Argelles and Co.; after three years, in 1903, the Association broke up and the Cuban cigar venture Romeo y Julieta Cigar Factory was made.
The proprietor José Fernández Rodríguez, a Spanish displaced person in Cuba, expanded the usefulness of his workers through an arrangement of motivators, which allowed to build the cigar's creation and the cigar's quality. He likewise presented cigar groups or customized vitolas to a portion of his most chosen customers.
He had printed more than 2,000 diverse vitolas at one time and also utilized exposure deceives as to name his own hustling horse after the name of the cigar brand, and took it to the main races in Europe. Then again, he additionally opened a shop in the inn Capulet in Verona, the city where Shakespeare's the show, Romeo and Juliet, occurred. Under the order of Fernández, the industrial facility moved to O'Reilly Street where it is found still.
The Romeo and Juliet cigar brand offers vitolas from medium to solid strength, with great ignition and earthy colored shade of the cigar covering. Romeo y Julieta utilizes tobacco from Vuelta Abajo (Pinar del Rio). This Cuban cigar brand is marketed in Spain, France, Benlux, Hong Kong, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, Middle East, Canada, East Europe, Swiss and Great Britain.