The Week Portfolio caught up with The Wellesley's resident cigar expert, Giuseppe Ruo, to discuss where the best cigars come from, what his favourite sticks are and what, in his view, is the must-have ...

Cigar making is traditionally a family affair, with multiple generations working together in the factories and on the farms. Padrón, maker of some of the most coveted cigars in the world, is no ...

Since 1865, five generations of Nestor Plasencia’s family have been growing top wrapper, binder, and filler tobaccos on their farms—first in Cuba, and later in Nicaragua and Honduras. But ever since ...

A look at the "fiercely competitive" cigar industry, which spanned 50 years in southeastern Minnesota and Wisconsin history, is on exhibit at the History Center of Olmsted County. "Up in Smoke," the ...

RACINE, WI — Back in the day, dock workers, businessmen, factory workers, and tavernkeepers would be seen with a cigar kept in their pockets or lit between their fingers after a long day at work. It ...

In 1962, José Orlando Padrón, a third-generation Cuban tobacco grower, ended up in Miami after the Castro regime confiscated his family’s farms. It took only two years for him to set up shop making ...