Trinidad USA

The Trinidad family founded Trinidad y Hermanos in Cuba in 1905. Diego Trinidad Jr. took over in 1920 and incorporated the firm in 1958 as TTT Trinidad; the Revolution confiscated it.

In exile, the Trinidads had a non-Cuban Trinidad rolled by the Fuentes, in Tampa, from 1968. Production stopped about ten years later, when the Fuentes moved away. A second attempt, Dominican and again with the Fuentes, came in 1997 and was equally short-lived.

The family took the matter to the American courts and secured the United States selling rights in 2001. In 2002 it sold the brand and those rights to Altadis U.S.A.

That is what sets this house apart from Cohiba USA and Partagás USA: those two are Cuban names that General Cigar registered in the United States, in the vacuum left by the embargo. Here it is the original house that recovered its own name before parting with it.

The 2003 catalogue — Coloniales, Fundadores, Reyes, Robusto Extra, Robusto T — was entirely Dominican. The maker no longer shows it today, without saying that it has been stopped.

Range Depth

• Trinidad Santiago

  Wrapper Dominican Republic (puro)

  A Dominican puro, blended by José “Jochy” Blanco at his Tabacalera Palma, in the Dominican Republic, from Cibao valley tobaccos. Rafael Nodal reworked the blend for Altadis.

• Trinidad Espiritu No. 1

  Wrapper Nicaragua (puro)

  A Nicaraguan puro, rolled at A.J. Fernandez in Estelí. First instalment of a series whose every episode claims a different growing region.

• Trinidad Espiritu No. 2

  The next in the series. The maker announces a wrapper and filler different from the first, without detailing them.

• Trinidad Espiritu No. 3

  Released in 2024, on Mexican and Nicaraguan tobaccos — the Mexican instalment of the series.

• Trinidad x Tommy Bahama Island Collection

  A series born of a collaboration with the clothing brand Tommy Bahama.