Macanudo Maduro Crystal Tube

‘Macanudo.’ is a word most common in Argentine slang and means magnificent, terrific, great or just cool. The origins are thought to be from the indigenous Quechua or Mapudungun. Today, and for us, it signifies a cigar that was the first for many aficionados because it was relatively mild. Like our own tastes, the Macanudo cigar continues to evolve. Macanudo was originally the name for a size produced in Guatemala by the makers of Cuban Punch cigars. It later became the property of Temple Hall, a Jamaican cigar-maker that produced Macanudo mainly for the British market. In 1969, the General Cigar Company acquired the Temple Hall factory in Kingston. Over the next couple of years, General would rework the Macanudo blend, testing leaf from all over the world. The legendary blender, Alfons Mayer, created a new Macanudo. Mayer learned his cigar craft in Cuba while working for General Cigar prior to its acquisition in 1961 by Edgar Cullman and his associates.