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In the cigar world, the name Cifuentes is synonymous with the Partagás brand, but now it will also be associated with Altezas Reales 1871,

The cigars are the creation of Rafael Cifuentes III, who worked with the El Titan de Bronze factory in Miami to create his debut line. The blend features an Ecuadorian habano-seed wrapper atop a Nicaraguan binder and filler, a profile that Cifuentes said contains a bit of what he describes as the “old Partagás taste,” specifically saying that he was inspired by the Partagás cigars from the 1990s, particularly the Serie D. No.4.

Each of the three sizes is limited to a production of 1,000 boxes, making for 10,000 of each vitola and just 30,000 cigars for the line, which gets its name from the Spanish phrase for royal highnesses. He said he selected El Titan de Bronze for its ability to produce cigars in the traditional Cuban method of entubado bunching and finishing the cigars with a triple cap. Like all Cuban cigars, the Altezas Reales 1871 line is box-dated, letting consumers know when the cigars were packaged.

Rafael Cifuentes III is the great-grandson of Ramón Cifuentes Llano, who acquired the Partagás factory in Havana, Cuba, over a century ago. The factory remained in the Cifuentes family until the fallout from the Cuban Revolution in 1959, which included the new Cuban government taking over the entire tobacco industry. As a result, Ramón Cifuentes Toriello, Ramón Cifuentes Llano’s son, left the island in 1961 and would eventually license the Partagás name to General Cigar Co. in the 1970s, with the first non-Cuban Partagás appearing in 1977. The Cifuentes name remains on many of General Cigar Co.’s Partagas cigars to this date, and the company has released several offshoot lines that honor members of the Cifuentes family.

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