During the 2015 ProCigar Festival held this past February in the Dominican Republic, Quesada Cigars showed off its most premium cigar to date, the Quesada Reserva Privada. As has been mentioned several times in recent years, Quesada is big on honoring the generations that have been instrumental in the company’s growth and success and this cigar is another reflection and tribute to that idea. When the cigar was unveiled, Manuel “Manolo” Quesada Jr. described it as having roots in three generations, as some of the filler tobacco was planted and picked before his father, Manuel Sr., passed away in 1998, while the boxes reflect the younger and more modern look–complete with hologram on the inside—inspired by the fifth generation, which includes his daughters Patricia and Raquel, niece Esther Quesada and nephews Terence Reilly, José Manuel Bermudez and Hostos Fernandez Quesada. The central part of the cigar’s story is tobacco from the 1997 harvest of Dominican San Vicente, which Manuel Quesada Jr. noted were all the same height and produced central leaves of the same size, the result of an even spread of the nutrients in the field. He refers to the tobacco as cosecha pareja, or even harvest. That tobacco got set aside ...
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