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San Cristóbal de La Habana

Founded in
1999 — La Havane, Cuba
Factories
Fabrique mère La Corona (Miguel Fernández Roig), La Havane, selon la presse du métier (2011) ; Habanos ne nomme aucune fabrique ; productions annuelles pour le réseau La Casa del Habano
Countries
Cuba

The brand takes up the original name of Havana, which the house's page traces back to 1519: San Cristóbal de La Habana. Launched in 1999, as a tribute to the history of the city (on 20 November in Havana, says Wikipedia), it named its first four formats after Havana fortresses of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: El Morro, La Fuerza, La Punta, El Príncipe.

Habanos classes the brand as light to medium in strength, totally hand-rolled with a long filler, with binder and filler from the Vuelta Abajo zone; the page describes no tasting note. Wikipedia adds that a brand of the same name existed before the Revolution, unrelated to the new one.

According to Wikipedia, El Príncipe is the shortest of the four (4 3/8 inches on cepo 42, or 111 mm, galera name Minuto) and El Morro the longest (7 1/4 inches on cepo 49, or 184 mm, Paco); a retailer writes that El Morro was discontinued in 2013. Between the two, La Fuerza (5 1/2 inches on cepo 50, Gordito) and La Punta (5 1/2 inches on cepo 52, Campana) measure 140 mm each, again according to Wikipedia.

Habanos presents the brand as one of those designed for the La Casa del Habano network, with annual productions exclusive to that network and the Habanos Specialists.

Where is it rolled? In Cuba the question has a two-storey answer. Since 2002 each Habanos brand has had a mother factory, responsible for leaf selection and blend, and its cigars may be rolled in any of the island's few dozen factories under the mother's supervision; Habanos does not publish that map, the trade press reconstructs it. Its mother factory is La Corona, the Miguel Fernández Roig, according to the trade press (2011), whose building was a cigarette factory until 2000 before being converted into a cigar factory; habanos.com names no factory for the brand. In October 2026, habanos.com lists it among the thirteen other brands of a portfolio of twenty-seven, outside the six global brands, the five value brands and the three volume brands; the trade press placed it on 1 August 2019 among the fourteen other brands of the twenty-one-brand portfolio. The official page says it was launched in 1999 as a tribute to the history of the city, with four vitolas named after fortresses — El Morro, La Fuerza, La Punta, El Príncipe —, widened in 2004 by Mercaderes, Oficios and Murallas, names of streets in Old Havana, and given annual exclusive productions for the network of Casas del Habano; it cites its 20 years, in 2019, within the framework of Havana's 500 years, with the 20 Aniversario (cepo 52, 162 mm). Wikipedia specifies that only the three formats of 2004 carried a La Casa del Habano band. The trade press (2011) names La Corona as the brand's mother factory; the house's page stays silent on this point.

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Source : habanos.com, page officielle San Cristóbal de la Habana (lue le 14 septembre 2026 : lancée en 1999 ; El Morro, La Fuerza, La Punta, El Príncipe ; Mercaderes, Oficios, Muralla en 2004 ; réservée au réseau La Casa del Habano ; 20 Aniversario en 2019 ; tripe longue, light à medium) ; cigaraficionado.com « Havana's Cigar Factories » (nov.-déc. 2011) et « Cuba Changes Classification of Cigar Brands » (1er août 2019) ; habanos.com « San Cristóbal de la Habana Brand » (sans date, lue le 16 octobre 2026 : 1999, vitolas, 2004, 20 Aniversario, force légère à moyenne, tripe longue, réseau LCDH) ; en.wikipedia.org « San Cristobal de la Habana (cigar) » (20 novembre 1999, cotes et noms de galera, source unique) ; cigaraficionado.com « Havana's Cigar Factories » (nov.-déc. 2011 : La Corona mère) ; cigarslover.com (La Punta, El Morro discontinué en 2013)

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