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La Garita Cigar Company

Since 1995, the first orders for La Garita cigars, also known as Falto Cigars, arrived on the shores of Puerto Rico. Luis learned all about the growing of tobacco, the different leaves and strains, processing, and the manufacturing of cigars. He handpicked, La Aurora, in the Dominican Republic, to manufacture his cigars. He personally knows all his cigar rollers by their first names and chooses all of the blends, himself. He currently has 7 different cigars. La Garita is truly a boutique as annual production is less than 6,500 cigars.

As Luis says, “I have so many memories, stories and moments that I have experienced while smoking cigars, since nothing accompanies a cigar better than a good conversation with friends while having an excellent cup of coffee”.

We met Luis Falto, the founder and owner of La Garita Cigar Company, in New York last year. Luis was visiting from his home in Puerto Rico and had recently been selling his cigars at Davidoff in the Time Warner Center. (They are also available in the Madison Avenue location and in seven other shops around the United States.)