The Quintero cigar brand was created as Quintero y Hermanos, 1924. in the town of Cienfuegos, located near the Vuelta Arriba of the Remedios tobacco growing region. The brand is one of the few Cuban cigar brands not born in the heartland of the prime tobacco growing region of Vuelta Abajo.

 

By the 1940s, Quintero y Hermanos had opened a much larger rolling factory in Havana, and had begun using prime tobaccos from the Vuelta Abajo region. The brand continued to grow in sales, and was particularly popular in Spain.

 

It the early 1960s, after Fidel Castro nationalized the Cuban cigar industry, the Quintero brand was repositioned as a primarily machine-made cigar, and most of the handmade sizes were dropped in favor of machine-made or hand-finished cigars using short filler tobaccos.

 

In 2002, as part of a marketing strategy to promote Cuban cigars as premium products, the Cuban government marketing organization, Habanos S.A. chose to discontinue machine-made cigars in favor of handmade versions. The Quintero cigar line was completely revamped and is now offering totalmente a mano (totally hand made) cigars in four sizes. The cigars are medium-to-full bodied in strength and are handmade with a short and medium filler blend of tobacco leaves from the Vuelta Abajo and Semi-Vuelta zones of the Pinar del Río region of Cuba.