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But those were Cuban cigars competing in the European market. Dunhill is now owned by British American Tobacco and they are making inroads once again. They have released several non-Cuban blends that have done well, such as the Signed Range and the 1907, Dominican cigars that are on the mild to medium side. With the Dunhill Heritage line they are branching out with heavier fare: the Heritage is a more robust blend made in Honduras with an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, a binder from Nicaragua’s Jalapa Valley, and aged fillers from Nicaragua (Ometepe and Esteli) and Honduras (Jamastran).</q> cigarfan.net [https://cigarfan.net/2015/11/14/dunhill-heritage-robusto/]</blockquote> | But those were Cuban cigars competing in the European market. Dunhill is now owned by British American Tobacco and they are making inroads once again. They have released several non-Cuban blends that have done well, such as the Signed Range and the 1907, Dominican cigars that are on the mild to medium side. With the Dunhill Heritage line they are branching out with heavier fare: the Heritage is a more robust blend made in Honduras with an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, a binder from Nicaragua’s Jalapa Valley, and aged fillers from Nicaragua (Ometepe and Esteli) and Honduras (Jamastran).</q> cigarfan.net [https://cigarfan.net/2015/11/14/dunhill-heritage-robusto/]</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote><q>Mr. Dunhill, a tall, stately man, on a visit here for the opening of the Dunhill “shop in” in the Bergdorf Goodman store in 1968, said his concern's cigar sales had expanded great ly with the transfer of basic Cuban producers to the Canary Islands. | |||
Even if Cuban cigars return to the United States, he said, the new sources of supply in the Canary Islands and Jamaica would remain import ant, because American smokers have become accustomed to the new tobacco and tobacco blends.</q> The New York Times, July 9, 1971, Page 34.</blockquote> | |||
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