Despite the name, La Aroma de Cuba is a Nicaraguan cigar. It began in Cuba in the late 1800s and was a favorite of a young Winston Churchill, then faded from the market for decades. The Levin family behind Ashton revived it and, in 2009, handed production to JosĂ© “PepĂn” GarcĂa and his son Jaime in EstelĂ, Nicaragua.
The GarcĂas pour their own Cuban heritage into Nicaraguan tobacco, rolling in the traditional entubado style and finishing with a Cuban triple cap. Its original line is medium-bodied under a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, all cocoa, cedar, and spice. Mi Amor, wrapped in dark Mexican San AndrĂ©s leaf, runs fuller and was named Cigar Aficionado’s No. 2 Cigar of the Year. La Aroma de Cuba cigars deliver Cuban-style character without a single Cuban leaf.