Vegas Robaina

This brand bears the name of the property of the best Cuban tobacco grower, Don Alejandro Robaina, whose family of tobacco growers set up in the tobacco region of San Luis during the middle of the last century. The San Luis area has the finest tobacco plantations and wrapper tobacco of the Vuelta Abajo region. Don Alejandro’s father, Maruto Robaina, was considered the finest tobacco grower in the country. In 1950, upon the death of Maruto Robaina, Don Alejandro took charge of the plantations, which have produced, and continue to produce, the best wrapper used to manufacture Habanos cigars. Approximately 40% of the tobacco exported from Pinar del Rio province uses Robaina Tobacco plantation wrapper.