Description

The Quesada 40th Anniversary Toro Real is a full-strength giant that was designed to commemorate Manuel Quesadas 40 years of crafting memorable cigars. A sweet, dark Mexican San Andres Maduro wrapper surrounds the 40th Anniversarys Dominican binder and its blended Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. The Quesada 40th Anniversary is a complex cigar with an earthy, fruity, and sweet flavor profile that will please cigar aficionados of all stripes.

Specifications

• BrandsQuesada 40th AnniversaryQuesada 40th Anniversary was launched in 2014 to celebrate Manuel Quesada’s 40 years as a cigarmaker. The cigar features Mexican San Andres wrapper, Dominican Criollo binder and filler from Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. An earthy, spicy-sweet smoke!
• Cigar ShapeGiantThe Giant was tipically a 9 inch by 52 cigar. Today, it is every cigar 8 inches and up with a ring gauge of 50 and up.
• Cigar SectionRoundMost cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.
• Cigar Length6″This cigar is 6 inches long, or 152.4 mm.
• OriginDominican RepublicMost cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.The Dominican Republic is the world’s first producer of cigars. Most factories are located in Santiago, in the center of the island, and in close proximity to the tobacco fields grown in the fertile Cibao Valley. While tobacco and cigars have always traditionally been produced in the Dominican Republic, many Cuban cigar makers established in the Dominican Republic after the Cuban communist revolution, elevating the quality of Dominican cigars.
• Cigar Ring Gauge65The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 65, so his diameter is 65/64 inches or 25.91 mm.
• Strength Full
• Wrapper ColorMaduroCigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (MaduroorOscuro) with a full range of browns in between.Maduro wrapper can go from dark coffee brown with a reddish tint to blackish brown (the latter also called Oscuro).
• Single PackagingCellophane
• Rolling TypeHandmadeHandmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar ManufacturerQuesada CigarsQuesada Cigars are made by Manufactura de Tabacos, S.A., a.k.a. MATASA, which is owned and operated by the Quesada family. The factory was founded by Manuel Quesada, his father and his brother in 1974 in Santiago, Dominican Republic. MATASAs vast portfolio of cigars includes the Quesada 1974, Quesada 40th Anniversary, and the Quesada Oktoberfest. They also manufacture cigars for some of the top brands in the industry.
• Cigar WrapperMexican San Andres MaduroThe wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.Mexican tobacco is very dark and the best leaves can be used as maduro wrappers. San Andres Maduro is a thick, medium bodied dark leaf, also called San Andres Morron. Like Connecticut Broadleaf, San Andres Maduro is stalk cut and used for binder and wrapper.
• Cigar BinderDominican RepublicThe binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.Dominican Republic is a traditional tobacco-growing country. In the 60’s, a Cuban seed was introduced and the resulting tobacco, called Piloto Cubano, became famous as a good substitute of the Cuban tobacco that was no longer allowed to enter the USA. Piloto Cubano is full bodied while the Dominican Olor tobacco is milder but more aromatic.
• Cigar FillerDominican RepublicFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.Filler (or tripa in Spanish) is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar. The Dominican Republic is considered one of the most premier tobacco growing countries in the world. The filler tobacco grown in this Caribbean island nation ranges from mild to full bodied. Olor Dominicano and Piloto Cubano are the main types of tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic.NicaraguaFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.
• UPC844111013456