Cuesta Rey - Cameroon - No. 95

is produced at the small premium cigar operation in El Reloj, best known for producing The American.
“After the Cuban Embargo was imposed in 1962, my grandfather, Stanford J. Newman, scoured the world for new types of tobacco,” said Drew Newman, the company’s fourth-generation owner, in a press release. “He discovered exquisite African Cameroon Wrapper (ACW) and was the first premium cigar maker to use it in the United States. Stanford wrapped ACW with a Connecticut Broadleaf binder and long filler tobaccos grown in the Dominican Republic to create the Cuesta-Rey No. 95. It was smooth, elegant, and flavorful, and became the top-selling premium cigar in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. 

The new cigar is a 6 1/4 x 42 lonsdale that uses a Cameroon wrapper over a Connecticut broadleaf binder over fillers from the Dominican Republic. While the current iteration of the cigar went on sale today, it’s actually a blend that was developed in the 1960s by Stanford Newman. Notably, this cigar