Vegas Robaina Review

Vegas Robaina Cigars

Once you start off with such an excellent cigar, well, it’s hard to duplicate that initial experience. My first cigar was a Montecristo #2, and I tend to stick to my favorite brands only, pretty much exclusively. Living in Miami, where there’s been talk of “fake cigars”, I am always careful to smoke cigars that are handed over.  One of my best friends from high school introduced me to a Vegas Robaina cigar in the very early 2000’s. Even though the cigar seemed to have excellent construction, and had a beautiful label, because of the name I was quick to judge. When my friend hands me a “Cuban cigar”, all I thought was that it was a cigar from Nevada. He went on to explain that he received a gift from his father in law that lives in Spain. I had never heard of that cigar at that time, so I went ahead and sparked it up. My oh my, this cigar quickly became my 2^nd favorite cigar.

I researched a little bit and found that Vegas Robaina is definitely a Cuban cigar brand, and it was introduced in the 90s. One of the best tobacco farmers in the rural area of Cuba became a giant in the cigar industry. Alejandro Robaina began planting tobacco in 1845 in the San Luis District in Santiago de Cuba. With good farming skills, Alejandro Robaina’s tobacco plantations grew successfully with huge harvests.

80% of Alejandro Robaina’s harvest was good enough to be used as cigar wrappers leaf. Remember, the wrapper leaf determines a good cigar. The wrapper leaf should be beautiful, smooth, and flawless. Most tobaccos fail to be accepted as wrapper leaf, and considering that manufacturers took 80% of Robaina’s tobacco, he was a recognized skilled farmer. The Habano cigar brand used Robaina’s tobacco. The brand was launched in Spain in 1997 by Habano SA. It bore the name of the most skilled Cuban tobacco farmer, Alejandro Robaina.

The Vegas Robaina cigar became a famous brand of cigar, making Alejandro Robaina a celebrity. People would travel to San Luis to meet the tobacco farmer with the best farming skills. Unfortunately, in 2009, Alejandro Robaina was diagnosed with cancer, and he passed away in 2010. That was how Vegas Robaina cigar came into existence, and every time you smoke Vegas Robaina, you are part of the historical cigar farming techniques.

Types of Vegas Robaina Cigars

The Habano produce Vegas Robaina cigar of high quality, with incredible balance. The brand Vegas Robaina cigars comprise of five hand-rolled cigars with different sizes. They were artfully named after Alejandro Robaina and his relatives to keep his name in existence. This is because his farming techniques were the best in the history of tobacco farming. Below are the different flavors of the Vegas Robaina cigars.

• Don Alejandro -It is 7 5/8″ in size, and it is a double corona roll. It is tasty with subtly sweet and woody notes.
• Famosos –it is 5” in size. It is a strong cigar, and you can enjoy it for a long time together with a glass of whisky. It would be best if you smoke it for at least forty minutes to one hour.
• Classicos –it is 6 ½” in size. Classicos is a reasonably light cigar, and it is distinctively spicy, making it perfect for someone who is tasting a variety of cigars.
• Familiares – It is 5 7/8″ in size with a creamy taste. Getting a pack of it is the best way to celebrate Robaina’s family’s efforts in tobacco farming.
• Unicos –it is 6 1/8″ in size, and its name comes from the word ‘unique. It is unique because of its pyramid shape. Unicos are strong cigars, and to get the best, you can smoke for a minimum of forty to sixty minutes. They have a sensational flavor, being spicy and smooth when you start, then in the middle, it becomes poignant leather, turning to coffee and pepper taste at the end.

The Havana Cuba factory produces Vegas Robaina cigar from good quality tobacco leaves. They are handmade, and there is no other place that manufactures Vegas Robaina. Take a flight to Cuba, buy a box, and invite me over for a conversation, it will be a great cigar experience. Or, if you have a couple and want to spare one, we will be friends forever!