Cornelius & Anthony
- Founded in
- 2015 — famille Bailey, Virginie
- Factories
- La Zona, Estelí ; et El Titan de Bronze, Miami
- Countries
- Nicaragua
Cornelius & Anthony comes from a family that has grown tobacco in Virginia for more than a hundred and fifty years. Steven Bailey launched the brand in 2015; the first cigar, Cornelius, came out in 2016. The name joins his great-great-grandfather's first name — the man who planted and worked on the railroad — with his own middle name.
The house is a subsidiary of S&M Brands, the family company of Keysville, Virginia. The detail matters to this atlas: S&M Brands makes cigarettes and small machine-made cigars, and none of that belongs here. Cornelius & Anthony is the house's other side, the hand-rolled one, and that is the only side the atlas holds.
Two workshops make the cigars, and neither belongs to the family. The larger share comes out of La Zona, Erik Espinosa's factory in Estelí. Cornelius itself — the line carrying the ancestor's name — is rolled in Miami, at El Titan de Bronze. Both have their entry in this atlas.
That the line carrying the most meaning should be the one rolled in Little Havana rather than in Estelí is no accident: El Titan de Bronze works in small runs, to order, and that is what this one needed.
Range Depth
Cornelius
The first line, out in 2016, and the only one rolled in Miami. It carries the first name of the great-great-grandfather who began the family in tobacco.
Robusto · Toro · Corona Gorda
Daddy Mac
A forebear's nickname, on a cigar made in Estelí. It is the house's entry line, the one most easily found.
Robusto · Toro · Torpedo
Aerial
Out in 2017, rolled at La Zona. The name comes from the overhead wires the family once strung to cure the leaf.
Robusto · Toro
Meridian
IPCPR 2016 — with Venganza, at La Zona.
Venganza
IPCPR 2016 — vengeance, the house's full-bodied one.
The Gent
IPCPR 2018 — the gentleman, with Mistress, at La Zona.
Source : cigarjournal.com « The Bailey Family's Tobacco History » et cigaraficionado.com (S&M Brands, 2015, La Zona, El Titan de Bronze) ; halfwheel.com « Cornelius & Anthony Adding Venganza, New Meridian » (IPCPR 2016) et cigar-coop.com « The Gent Robusto » (IPCPR 2018, avec Mistress, chez La Zona)