Padrón Cigar Manufacturer in Miami, Florida

Padrón Cigar Manufacturer in Miami, Florida
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Padrón Cigars

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Think handcrafted cigars, think Padron. A rich family legacy dating back 100 years ago, Padron is a brand synonymous with quality.


How was the Padron Cigar company born?

Padron is a Miami-based company founded by Jose Orlando Padron, who hailed from Cuba. Orlando belonged to a family of tobacco farmers with roots in the Canary Islands.

Damaso Padron was the first among the Padrons to set foot in Cuba. He started tobacco plantations in the high-yielding lands of Pinar Del Rio and the subsequent generations followed in his footsteps armed with the mission to grow and expand the family business.

With a technical degree under his belt, Orlando worked at his father's farm for a while before landing a job at a copper mine in Pinar del Río. However, after a brief tryst with politics, he eventually migrated to Spain in 1961 to escape the political turmoil brewing in Cuba.

After a short stay in Spain, he left for the United States in December of the same year. He bagged a job in New York. Two months into the job, he found himself bound for Miami in February 1962.

While in Miami he mowed lawns. Afterward, with a hammer gifted to him by his friend, Orlando did specialized carpentry work. He toiled painstakingly hard and saved up some $600. However, the thought of his family vocation had never abandoned him. Furthermore, the lack of availability of Cuban cigars in Miami was a turning point. His savings were enough for him to open Padron Cigars in September 1964. He started his manufacturing unit with a single cigar roller.


The Road Ahead

Orlando used a special Cuban blend to manufacture his products. While he continued working on his previous jobs, he moonlighted by showing up in places that sold cigars. It was a journey fraught with continuous struggles and hardships. Because replicating the quality of Cuban cigars in Miami was a gargantuan task.

But he had an unfaltering determination, an unstoppable passion, and a keen eye for quality. These characteristics prompted Orlando to dig deeper which took him to Nicaragua.

He found out that a valley in Nicaragua's Esteli region provided the exact conditions needed for growing the Cuban variety of tobacco in America. He capitalized on this fine opportunity to provide the finest quality of cigars to his consumers, including Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy.

Orlando, however, had to battle a range of adversities right from political turmoil in Nicaragua and fire at the plant to animosities perpetuated by local groups at his Miami manufacturing unit. His unflinching courage and unwavering goal led him on the way to success.

Today, the company is managed mostly by his family members trained under Orlando's tutelage. A highly admired and revered family entrepreneurial venture that is carrying forward the tradition of handcrafted cigars through the past five decades.

These cigars are a true work of art, handcrafted with the finest quality tobacco and made with love, care, and precision.


Padron's Cigar Collections

SHOP ALL PADRON CIGARS

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Padron has an impressive range of cigar series. Each of which is a commemoration of an important event in the life of the Padron's.

Right from the company's inception, to Damaso Padron's arrival in Cuba to its golden jubilee celebrations, each series is a memory of the Padron journey.

The recipe used is a hallmark of the exceptional quality that Padron cigars stand for. A fine balance of full-bodied smoke and flavor is infused into the cigars with deft hands to give them that smooth and complex feel. Each type is created out of tobacco aged between two and five years.

Today, the name Jose Orlando Padron stands tall - a visionary highly venerated among cigar aficionados, who pioneered the brand to take handcrafted cigars to the heights of excellence.

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