La Gloria Cubana (D.R.)

La Gloria Cubana was founded in Miami's Little Havana in 1972 at the El Credito cigar factory on Calle Ocho. When Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. took over from his father in 1980, he transformed the blend by introducing Nicaraguan tobacco alongside the Dominican filler and wrapping it in an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, a combination that helped define what an American boutique cigar could be.

General Cigar purchased the brand in 1999, moving production to the El Credito factory within General Cigar Dominicana in Santiago. The Classic line is offered in both a Natural Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper and a Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro, the latter delivering darker notes of chocolate, wood, and pepper over the same Dominican-Nicaraguan core.