Joya de Nicaragua Antano

Joya de Nicaragua was established in 1968 as the country's first premium cigar company, and the Antaño line, whose name means "yesteryear" in Spanish, was created in 2001 as a deliberate homage to the powerful, full-bodied Nicaraguan puros that had made the factory famous in the 1970s before the Sandinista revolution devastated the industry. Owner Alejandro Martínez Cuenca built the Antaño concept around a simple but demanding goal: to create a benchmark for what a full-bodied Nicaraguan puro should be. The entire blend, wrapper, binder, and filler, is sourced from Nicaragua, drawn from tobacco regions across the country that together deliver a concentrated, peppery, and intensely flavorful smoke. The database captures both the standard 1970 series, with vitola names like Robusto Grande, Belicoso, Churchill, Gran Consul, Machito, and Consul, and the premium Gran Reserva tier, which uses specially selected and more aged tobacco in three of the same vitola formats at roughly double the price. The Gran Consul, a 4.75 x 60 figurado, is one of the most recognizable shapes in the Joya portfolio.