While the Dunhill name dates back to 1907 and Alfred Dunhill’s opening of a tobacco shop in London, it wasn’t until much later in the 20th century before the company’s name first appeared on a cigar all by itself. Up until that point, there were cigars under the Dunhill Selección Suprema name, but those were made by various factories for Dunhill. In 1989, the name first appeared on a Dominican cigar made by British American Tobacco, which still has rights to Dunhill today. Despite decades of cigars produced for Dunhill, there is fairly common style of cigar which its name has never graced: a maduro. The Dunhill Aged Range got a refreshed look once General Cigar Co. was chosen to handle the company’s distribution in the U.S., getting a new blue band and updated logo with a modernized take on the old script logo. The line also added the Dunhill Aged Reserva Especial 2003, which was blended around Dominican filler tobaccos from 2003. This year, the brand rectified the lack of a maduro by unveiling the Dunhill Aged Maduro at this year’s trade show. While Dunhill might be known for elegance in its profiles, the blend of a sun grown ligero maduro wrapper ...
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