Mavros is a new brand of premium, Mexican, hand-rolled cigars. Our cigars are made by a torcedor (master cigar roller), with 70 years of experience, and a cigar cooperative in San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz with a 150-year-old tradition, that now works exclusively with Mavros Cigars.
Our debut line of cigars is called “Revolucionarios” – in honor of the Mexican charro generals who used to smoke them during the revolution of 1910.
In the wake of the Cuban war of independence, two brothers fled to México. They brought with them tabaco negro Cubano, Cuban Black Tobacco plants.
The brothers settled in Veracruz and established their cigar plantation and company in the area of San Andres Tuxtla. The ideal climate and land, and the unique mixing of Cuban tobacco with Mexican soil, established it as a premiere tobacco growing region.
In the prelude to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the workers of the cigar company organised a series of strikes. The outstanding quality of the cigars, paired with the ideological force of the workers’ class identity, made these puros the favourite smoke of Mexican revolutionaries – especially among the charro generals who fought, on horseback, for the land to be returned to the people.
After the revolution, the tobacco farms were nationalized in agrarian reforms and working conditions improved in the cigar factories. Years later, the workers in San Andres Tuxtla organised yet another a major strike, continuing their tradition of labour organising. The owners caved, closed the 120-year-old company and left the top of the line, antique machinery to the workers.
It became the first and only cigar cooperative in México.
This cooperative now works exclusively with Mavros, continuing a centuries old tradition of creating master blends of Cuban Black Tobacco grown in San Andres Tuxtla’s fertile, volcanic, nutrient rich soil.
Our torcedor (master cigar roller) draws on his 70 years of experience to create Revolucionarios ‒ a line of cigars that embodies the legacy of the Mexican revolution.
Mavros Cigars should be available in early 2021.
Website: www.mavroscigars.com
Instagram: @mavroscigars
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