By this time next week, Quesada’s 40th anniversary cigar will likely be out in the open, as the company is expected to preview the product at the annual ProCigar festival in the Dominican Republic. Ten years ago, the company celebrated its 30th anniversary with a cigar using two of its other names: MATASA, the company’s old factory, and Fonseca, the older Cuban trademark the family owns. The Matasa 30th Anniversary by Fonseca was offered in two sizes, a perfecto (5 3/4 x 54) and toro (6 1/2 x 52). It debuted at a time in which Dominican wrapper was the rave, shortly after Arturo Fuente successfully released the Fuente Fuente OpusX, the first Dominican puro. In 2003, the same year the MATASA 30th was released, La Aurora and La Flor Dominicana would both debut cigars with Dominican wrappers, a feat at the time. Manuel “Manolo” Quesada Jr., the patriarch of the Quesada family, selected high priming olor wrapper, a native tobacco of the Dominican Republic, grown in the Cibao Valley by the Reyes family. Fillers, some eight-years-old, were sourced from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua, all to make a cigar that was talked about for its strength. Manuel Quesada ...
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