Vegas de Santiago White Label

This line from the cigar producer Vegas de Santiago was the first of the Tabacalera to be marketed internationally. The father of the current company CEO emigrated to Costa Rica in the early 2000s as a retiree and embarked on the "cigar adventure" when he secured the worldwide export rights for the Vegas de Santiago White Label cigars. His son and current company CEO, Marc Niehaus, quit his job as a teacher in Switzerland and has been supporting his father in the Tabacalera since 2009. Since then, remarkable successes have been achieved, and a wide portfolio of Vegas de Santiago cigars has been introduced and distributed internationally.

The filler blend of this series comes from Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The binder is from Costa Rica, while the wrapper comes from Nicaragua. All six available vitolas are, of course, handmade long fillers. Besides this Tabacalera, internationally, only the cigars from Brun del Ré are known or significant.

Interestingly, the Corazza family that produces this brand is also of Swiss origin. So, there seems to be some connection between the European Switzerland and the Switzerland of Central America - we'll have to ask both of them what that might be... ;-)