Products from Alonso Menendez

The name Alonso Menendez is a well-known name among cigar lovers; most aficionados associate his name with the cigar brand originating from Brazil and the tobacco plantation located there. However, these were only founded in the 1960s by his son Felix in the Brazilian state of Bahia, near the capital Salvador on the Atlantic coast. Alonso himself was involved in the founding of the two well-known Cuban cigar brands Montecristo and H. Upmann and emigrated to Brazil after the Cuban revolution. The high-quality tobaccos from Brazil, especially the world-famous Mata Fina, are also used by well-known brands such as Davidoff in many blends for cigars, but cigars made purely from Brazilian tobaccos are still a rarity. The characteristics of Brazilian tobaccos are a wonderful contrast to those of Caribbean tobaccos.