Halfwheel revisits La Gloria Cubana Glorias

[El Presidente]

 

November 4, 2024 Patrick Lagreid

While I take issue with many things about Cuba, one thing I have admired is Cubatabaco’s and Habanos S.A..’s seeming specificity when it comes to the naming of cigars. There are defined ranges for the ring gauges and lengths of common cigar vitola names, i.e. coronas, grand coronas, robustos, double robustos, and so on.

Then there are specific names for each vitola, so two robustos with the same ring gauge but with a slight difference in their length would have two distinct names, known as the vitola de galera or factory name. If anything, two cigars with the same vitola de galera might have two different names on the boxes—the cigar name or vitola de salida.

But then there are situations where the cigar’s name—the one that shows up on the box—will have had multiple incarnations, such as the case of the La Gloria Cubana Glorias,

 

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[Perla]

Thanks El Pres. 
I had a few boxes and I smoked a lot of them and tried so hard to love them. It ain’t happened 🤷🏽‍♀️. 
At least I got good money as I sold them 😊.