Which cigar brands are truly the oldest ones still around today?
Cigarfolio takes you deep into the long and fascinating history of cigar making, tracing the people, places, families, factories, and brands that shaped the cigar world.
From Florence to Havana, through the tobacco fields of Brazil, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, this journey follows the story across centuries and continents, all the way to the modern boutique movement.
It begins with the oldest verified brand in the research and follows the real timelines behind the names generations of cigar smokers have come to know, collect, and remember. Along the way, it explores how brands survived wars, revolutions, changing ownership, new markets, trademark disputes, family legacies, and the rise of entirely new cigar-making traditions.
Among the brands explored are Por Larrañaga, Ramón Allones, H. Upmann, Partagás, Romeo y Julieta, Cohiba, La Aurora, Arturo Fuente, Padrón, Plasencia, Joya de Nicaragua, Drew Estate, My Father Cigars, A.J. Fernandez, Tatuaje, and Foundation Cigar Co., along with many other names that helped shape the story of the cigar.
This is a story of names that survived, disappeared, returned, crossed borders, changed hands, and helped shape the cigar world we know today.
