Plasencia Cigars

About

Throughout the cigar aficionado community Plasencia cigars are known as some of the best to be rolled in the New World . Over the years a great many brands have employed the services of the world-class torcedores working at the Plasencia factories to create their cigars, before the family decided to release some with their own name proudly emblazoned on the boxes. That family is now in its fifth generation of cigar makers, and is still as dedicated to quality and craft as their ancestor was when he stared the company. While the Plasencia farms and factories of today are to be found in Nicaragua, it was in the fabled Vuelta Abajo region of Cuba that the association between the family and fine tobacco cultivation was born. Don Eduardo Plasencia left the Spanish Canary Islands in 1865, along with many of his countrymen, to seek prosperity and opportunity in Cuba. He began to grow tobacco to great success, and fewer that 30 years later his nephew, Sixto Plasencia Juares, had opened a second farm at Corojal. Sixto’s sons – the third generation of the family to continue the legacy – began to export tobacco to larger companies in the 1920s, and went from strength to strength right up until 1963. It was then that Castro’s nationalisation of the industry took full hold, forcing the entire Plasencia family to flee to Mexico with whatever possessions they could carry. Like so many other Cuban tobacco dynasties, they spread out through the Caribbean before eventually settling in Nicaragua. In 1965 – exactly 100 years since his grandfather planted his first seeds in Cuba – Don Elder Sixto Plasencia dropped his best seeds into the volcanic soil of Nicaragua. His farms thrived once again, until in 1978 revolution once again destroyed his business. The farms were burned by the Sandinistas, and the family fled once again, this time to Honduras. A third new beginning awaited, and the Nestor Plasencia represented the fourth generation of the family to grow tobacco when he entered the