Cuban Vegueros Gets A New Size
The prominent “V” on the bands and boxes of Cuba’s most wallet-friendly cigar doesn’t stand for “value” although that’s exactly what it aims to deliver. Vegueros is a bargain in the world of Cuban cigars, the least expensive Cuban brand rolled by hand with long-filler tobacco, and it now has a new size called Centrogordos.
The Vegueros Centrogordos is a short robusto that measures 4 inches long by 54 ring gauge. It had its premiere party this weekend at the Kontiki Hotel in Curaçao’s capital city of Willemstad where 150 guests were among the first to try the short, fat cigar. The unveiling coincided with the third Caribbean Habanos Days, a regional celebration of Cuban cigars organized by Habanos S.A. and Caribbean Cigars Corp. N.V., the Habanos distributor for Curaçao, the Caribbean and Central America.
If you find yourself in St. Maarten later this month, the Centrogordos at the La Casa del Habano in Philipsburg will cost you around $16 each. In Curaçao’s Casa del Habano, or at Habanos Specialist Don Caribe Cigars, it will cost the same. Stores in the Caribbean expect to have the new Vegueros by the third week of October. According to Habanos, it will also ship to the rest of the world, although exact dates were not specified.
The Centrogordos brings the brand to five sizes and is the first new addition to the Vegueros line since the Centrofinos was introduced in 2019. Like the other sizes in the line, this smoke is packaged in box-shaped tins of 16 cigars.
Vegueros was completely redesigned and rebooted in 2013 with new sizes and new packaging. The brand is supposed to be a tribute to Cuba’s tobacco farmers.
For a rating of the Vegueros Centrogordos, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
