The following video is an interview with Manuel “Manolo” Quesada, the President of Quesada Cigars. Quesada Cigars, formally known as MATASA, is a family-owned factory based in the Dominican Republic that specializes in the manufacture of premium cigars. It’s best known brands are Quesada, Casa Magna, Heisenberg, and Fonseca line of cigars.

Boyd’s Tobacco & Elegant Gifts has a featured article in the current San Luis Obispo Visitor’s Guide. The article was written by Kate Joyce and seen on the San Luis Obispo Visitor’s Guide website.

Conveniently located in the heart of Paso Robles!

Boyd’s Tobacco & Elegant Gifts, located near downtown Paso Robles, is a veritable treasure trove for cigar and tobacco enthusiasts. It offers a huge array of cigars, cigarettes and pipe tobacco, as well as all the accompanying accessories. Boyd’s Tobacco & Elegant Gifts is also well stocked with a variety of gifts such as wine accessories, Waterford Crystal, shaving accessories and flasks. Boyd’s also strives to make gift giving simple by offering gift-wrap at no extra charge.

The Story that Made the Cigar. The Cigar That Made History.

In 1935, The Count of Monte Cristo was one of the most popular books read by the Lectores de Tabaqueria. These professional readers, hired by cigar factories in La Habana, used to read stories from elevated platforms to rollers while they plied their craft. In the the Particulares Factory, this story of swashbuckling adventure captivated listeners so much that it was requested over and over again, thus a cigar took the name and spirit of the Count and the Montecristo brand was born.

Celebrating this rich history, the new Montecristo 80th Anniversary is a very special, extremely limited-edition cigar featuring Dominican Pilotico tobacco grown from seeds hand-carried from Cuba by Pepe Mendez.

Rolled in a dark and oily Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, the Montecristo 80th Anniversary has notes of nuts, leather and a sweet aftertaste. It’s a rich, fuller-bodied and wonderfully complex smoke-the perfect way to mark this momentous occasion.