| partagas cigars - Partagas cigars were found by Don Jaime Partagas who began manufacturing cigars in 1827 and put his own name on the brand in 1845. After his death, the brand passed to Ramon Cifuentes in 1889 and was owned by Cifuentes y Cia. prior to nationalization, earning a mention by name in English novelist Evelyn Waugh's 1945 work, "Brideshead Revisited". The greatest chapters of Partagas history were written by these two men, Ramón Cifuentes and the son who was named after him. Whether working together or alone, it was those two great cigar masters who made Partagas the leading Cuban cigar. But in 196l, two years after Fidel Castro had seized control of the Cuban government, Ramón Cifuentes was forced to flee the island, never to return. Seventeen years later, he was finally able to begin creating his Partagas cigars again, this time in the Dominican Republic, where his unmatched tradition of cigar making remains alive and well. These cigars are full-bodied and rich. The flavor becomes more pronounced with the higher ring gauges. Partagas cigars also won gold medals in at least three international expositions between 1867 and 1884. There is no doubt about the full-bodied and earthy, intense flavour of this line and it is still produced in the Partagas factory.
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