Billed as one the most premium offerings in the company’s profile, the Quesada Reserva Privada also has the distinction of being the cigar selected by Sam & Rosie Lopez to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Fine Ash Cigars, their store in Avondale, Ariz. Quesada first previewed the Reserva Privada at the 2015 Procigar Festival, the annual celebration of the Dominican cigar industry. Heralded as the most premium cigar that the company has ever created, with Manuel “Manolo” Quesada Jr. describing the cigar as having roots in three generations. A portion of the the filler tobacco was planted and picked before his father, Manuel Sr. passed away in 1998, while the boxes come from the fifth generation of the family, with a younger and more modern aesthetic that includes a hologram on the inside. More specifically, the cigar is centered around a crop of 1997 Dominican San Vicente tobacco that was particularly special but which had yet to find a use. Quesada, Jr. said that the plants were all the same height and produced central leaves of the same size, something that was the result of an even spread of the nutrients in the field. He called this particular crop cosecha pareja, ...
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