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Logo for Padrón Cigars

Background and History

Padrón Cigars is a company that produces cigars from Nicaragua. The company was founded in 1964 in Miami, Florida by José Orlando Padrón. Padrón had moved there from Cuba. In 1970, Padrón moved the company to Esteli, Nicaragua. Because of political problems in Nicaragua, the company opened a second factory in Honduras in 1977, and after an embargo was placed on Nicaragua by the United States in 1985, production was shifted entirely to the plant in Honduras. The company did not continue production out of Nicaragua again until 1990.

Padrón Cigars is managed entirely by the Padrόn family, under the leadership of José O. Padrón and Jorge Padrón. The company controls all aspects of cigar production, including tobacco growing, sorting, processing, cigar manufacturing, and distribution.

Awards/Recognition/Ratings

• 1926 Serie No. 9 was was designated one of the 25 Best Cigars of 2007 by Cigar Aficionado magazine.

Regular Production

Examples of Padrón's three most common production series: a standard Padrón cigar (top); an Anniversary series (middle); and a 1926 Serie (bottom).

Padron Series

There are (14) fourteen vitolas in the Pardon Series. Each available in natural and maduro wrapper. With the exception of the Corticos, the band for all of the vitolas is brown with "Padron" and "Handmade" in white lettering. Wrapper, filler, and binder are all sun-grown habano from Nicaragua aged two-and-one-half years.</ref>

Frontmark	Vitola	Length (in.)	Ring Gauge
Delicias	Corona Extra	4 7/8	46
2000	Robusto	5	50
Londres	Corona	5 1/2	42
3000	Robusto	5 1/2	52
5000	Robusto	5 1/2	56
Palmas	Corona	6 1/2	42
4000	Double Corona	6 1/2	54
Panatela	Panatela	6 7/8	36
Ambassador	Lonsdale	6 7/8	42
Churchill	Churchill	6 7/8	46
Executive	Churchill	7 1/2	50
Magnum	Giant	9	50
7000	Toro	6 1/4	60
Corticos		4 1/4	35

External links

• Official website