A name read aloud
How a Havana factory took its name from a novel, and what happened on the night of 15 September 1960.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 10 minPoint the camera at the band, or type the name, and a cigar master tells you where the leaf was grown, who rolled it and how the line came to be. About nine minutes a cigar.
Frame the band of the cigar in your hand. The app reads the printed text and finds the line in our catalogue. If we do not know it yet, search by name or ask us to record it.
A free teaser, then the full story with chapters: the place, the people, how it is made, the tradition. It keeps playing with the screen locked, so the phone goes back in the pocket.
Save the cigar with its size to your Humidor, rate it out of ten, and pick the story up where you left it, on any device.
Seven Cuban lines from Vuelta Abajo, one Dominican, one Nicaraguan, one Mexican, and one Cuban brand that began as a diplomatic gift. Written from published sources, with a fact table behind every claim, reviewed by a cigar master. More lines are added as the pilot goes.
How a Havana factory took its name from a novel, and what happened on the night of 15 September 1960.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 10 minSixteen years of gifts from a villa on the edge of Havana, and the oldest word on the island.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 9 minA Havana house named from Shakespeare, and how Winston Churchill's name came to sit on its band.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 10 minA tailor's son from Catalonia, Havana's oldest factory and a story that was never closed.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 10 minHow a refugee boy from Kyiv built a Cuban cigar house, burned it, and moved it to the Dominican valley.
Dominican Republic · about 10 minHow a boy from Catalonia, a low field by a river and a plain robusto made Hoyo de Monterrey.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 9 minHow a Havana bank failed in 1922 and the cigar with its founder's name on the box outlived it.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 10 minHow a Spaniard in Havana named a cigar after the Liberator, and how the Partagás family carried it on.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 10 minHow a cigar named for a sugar town spent thirty years as Havana's best kept secret.
Vuelta Abajo, Cuba · about 10 minHow a gift hammer in Miami became a Nicaraguan cigar aged four years and pressed the old Cuban way.
Estelí, Nicaragua · about 10 minHow the Turrents grew Mexico's tobacco for other houses before putting their own name on a band.
San Andrés, Mexico · about 12 minA story you want recorded, a cigar we are missing, or anything else: hello@cigartale.app.