Fonseca (cigar brand)

Its founder, Don Francisco E. Fonseca was born in Manzanillo, Cuba, in 1868 (there are variations in birth years across documents).

Meanwhile, Fonseca maintained a residence at 48 West 73rd Street in New York, where he and Teresa raised their four children, three of whom were named Francisco.

Besides having a reputation for selecting the finest quality tobacco, Don Francisco developed an innovative method of packaging his cigars, wrapping each one separately in a tube of tin foil, and then an outer covering of fine Japanese paper, to shield the cigar from atmospheric changes[2] (They are still packaged this way today, with the tubes now usually made of aluminum foil instead of tin).

Production continued uninterrupted after the revolution and the cigars are still produced at the Lázaro Pena Factory in Havana.

Hand-Made Vitolas Spanish poet Federico García Lorca mentions the “blond head of Fonseca” (la rubia cabeza de Fonseca), along with “the pink of Romeo y Julieta” in his poem “Son de negros en Cuba” (Poet in New York).