{"id":12642,"date":"2017-10-23T05:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T03:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigars-connect.com\/farewell-montecristo-a\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T09:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T07:47:57","slug":"farewell-montecristo-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigars-connect.com\/en\/farewell-montecristo-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Montecristo A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Launched at the beginning of the 70s, the Montecristo A is being retired from service. We take a quick look back at the 40-year history of an iconic cigar.<\/b><\/h2>\n

The<\/span> Montecristo A<\/span><\/a> had it all from the start: exceptionally tall (more than 23 cm long), dark, handsome and silky smooth to boot; with a price to match (around \u20ac40 toward the end of its life). And above all, outrageous quality and consistency…<\/span><\/p>\n

Chosen and recognized in the 1990s by the<\/span> Guinness Book of Record<\/span><\/a>s as the \u201cmost expensive cigar in the world\u201d, more importantly (for us), it distinguished itself in the first edition of the Havanoscope, back in 1998, receiving 5 bands and being selected as the \u201cPanel\u2019s choice\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

It long remained the emblematic premium cigar, the big stogie reserved for the rich and powerful. Produced in very small quantities, it was a Havana for very special occasions. It dictated the pace \u2013 slow and delicious \u2013 and took a good two hours to smoke…<\/span><\/p>\n

A cigar for its time<\/b><\/h3>\n

Around the year 2000, it briefly became more inconspicuous on the market \u2013 probably to support the cigar boom at that time \u2013 without making any concessions on production quality. It never got fewer than 4 bands in the<\/span> Havanoscope<\/span><\/a> and was even selected as the Panel\u2019s Choice again in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its disappearance marks the end of an era. The era of gargantuan cigars that seemed to suspend time. It joins other dearly departed vitolas like the Punch Churchill, Sancho Panza\u2019s Sanchos and Saint Luis Rey\u2019s Double Coronas, in the Cuban Cigar Pantheon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The market has spoken and the curtain has come down, maybe at the expense of heritage. But that\u2019s another (vast and maybe fruitless) debate…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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