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Aganorsa Leaf

Aganorsa Leaf (formerly Casa Fernández) is owned and operated by Eduardo Fernández and his son Max. The Miami-based company is fully vertically integrated, benefitting from the family's many tobacco farms throughout Nicaragua, as well as factories in Miami and Nicaragua. The company is best known for their Casa Fernandez, Guardian of the Farm, and JFR cigar lines.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 9.00

A.J. Fernandez Cigar Company

AJF Cigar Company produces premium cigars made in Nicaragua by master blender A.J. Fernández. AJF cigars are known for big flavors and affordable prices.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 8.20

Alec Bradley

Alec Bradley is one of the most well-known cigar brands in the American market, launching at the tail end of the cigar boom of the '90s and evolving to offer a wide range of modernized smoking experiences.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 9.45

Altadis USA

Altadis U.S.A. has grown into one of the largest cigar companies in the world, offering non-Cuban versions of Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, and more.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 10.44

Arturo Fuente

Arturo Fuente is one of the most recognized brands in the cigar industry, offering what many consider the quintessential Dominican smoking experience.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 16.00

Ashton

Ashton is a luxury cigar brand headquartered in Philadelphia and produced by both the Fuente and García families throughout the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, respectively.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 12.00

Asylum Cigars

Asylum Cigars is co-owned by Christian Eiora and Tom Lazuka. The brand features edgy, modernized concepts, embracing large and ultra-large cigar formats.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 7.00

AVO Cigars

AVO Cigars features musical concepts, inspired from founder Avo Uvezian and his background in jazz music.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 13.14

Black Works Studio

Black Works Studio (BLK WKS) debuted in 2015 as a new outlet for blender James Brown and the boutique style of the Fabrica Oveja Negra factory.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 10.00

Bombay Tobak

Bombay Tobak is best known for its MBombay line of cigars, using East Indian influences to differentiate itself among the common style of Cuban-inspired cigars.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 16.00

Caldwell Cigar Company

Caldwell Cigar Company was founded by Robert Caldwell in 2013 and launched a trio of artistically-geared cigars in the spring of 2014. The company thrives on modern and unorthodox presentations, focusing primarily on nuanced, Cubanesque smoking experiences.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 10.89

Camacho

Camacho Cigars is known as "The Bold Standard," producing intense smoking profiles that are built on the company's proprietary Original Corojo tobacco. Camacho utilizes primarily Honduran tobaccos, rolling the cigars at their own Diadema Cigars de Honduras factory in Danlí.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 9.69

C.L.E.

CLE Cigars is named for owner Christian Luis Eiroa and features traditional smoking experiences stemming from the Eiroa family's Authentic Corojo tobacco.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 8.00

Cornelius & Anthony Premium Cigars

Cornelius & Anthony Premium Cigars is owned by Steven Bailey, basing many of the brand's cigars on early American life and the Bailey family's tobacco history.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 10.50

Crowned Heads

Crowned Heads is based in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring atypical brands that often draw inspiration from the local rock music scene.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 9.83

Crux Cigars

Crux Cigars debuted in 2014, partnering with the famed Plasencia family out of Nicaragua for production. Crux sets themselves apart using unorthodox graphics and concepts, as well a careful tobacco selection process.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 10.20

Cubariqueño Cigar Company

Cubariqueño Cigar Co. is best known for the company's law enforcement-themed Protocol line of cigars, as well as the entertaining personalities of company owners Juan Cancel and Bill Ives.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 11.00

Davidoff Cigars

Davidoff Cigars are made in the Dominican Republic by Hendrik Kelner and his TabaDom Holding, Inc. facilities, known as a world leader in luxury cigars.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 20.00

Drew Estate

Drew Estate is the upsetter within the world of premium cigars. Led by the idiosyncratic vision of co-founder Jonathan Drew, the company is best known for their artistic flare, infused cigars (ACID), and full-flavored maduro blends such as Liga Privada and Undercrown.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 10.96

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust is a boutique-minded company that focuses on quality, attention to detail, and authenticity. The company was formed by industry veteran Steve Saka in 2015.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 11.57

Edition One, Inc.

Edition One, Inc. is formed by the partnership of brothers Devin and Kyle Gellis. The brand offers a modern and simplistic approach, debuting in 2016.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 6.00

EPC Cigar Co.

EPC Cigar Company is owned and operated by the Carrillo family. The company is lead by Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, one of the industry's leading cigar talents.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 9.67

Espinosa Premium Cigars

Espinosa Premium Cigars was founded in 2012 by Erik Espinosa and is committed to creating cigars of superior quality.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 10.31

Fable Cigars

Fable Cigars is a boutique operation, producing cigars (such as Fourth Prime) at the craft-minded Fabrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño S.A. factory in Estelí.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 9.00

Foundation Cigar Company

Foundation Cigar Company was founded by Nick Melillo in 2015. Nick is known as a rising talent in cigar blending, showing a suite of unique smoking profiles in his first solo efforts with Foundation.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 11.40

Fratello Cigars

Fratello Cigars is the creation of Omar de Frias, a former NASA employee. Fratello is a boutique-minded cigar manufacturer with production out of the JDN factory in Nicaragua.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 9.00

General Cigar Company

General Cigar Co. is a subsidiary of Scandinavian Tobacco Group, the second largest cigarmaker in the world. General is known for its Cuban legacy brands such as Cohiba, Partagas, and Punch.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 10.17

Global Premium Cigars

Global Premium Cigars is lead by Enrique Sánchez Icaza, centering the company around boutique Nicaraguan offerings. The company is best known for its 1502 line, commemorating the year Nicaragua was discovered by Christopher Columbus.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 18.00

Gurkha

Gurkha embraces lavish concepts and ornate packaging, offering unorthodox smoking experiences for the world's most elite smokers, as well as those that seek to be.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 11.33

Habanos S.A.

Habanos S.A. owns and distributes all Cuban-made cigars, operating under the state-owned Cubatabaco monopoly, bringing habanos to all non-U.S. countries.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 13.28

Illusione Cigars

Illusione Cigars is operated and founded by Dion Giolito, using small-batch manufacturing techniques and centering around life's most unusual conspiracies.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 11.44

J.C. Newman Cigar Co.

J.C. Newman Cigar Company was founded in 1865 by Julius Caeser Newman and currently operates as the oldest family-owned cigar manufacturer in the United States.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 11.83

Joya de Nicaragua

Joya de Nicaragua is the oldest cigar company in Nicaragua. Joya focuses on strong, Nicaraguan-based cigars, made at their world-renowned factory in Estelí.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 11.00

JRE Tobacco Company

JRE Tobacco Company is owned and operated by Julio R. Eiroa and his son Justo M. Eiroa. JRE's cigars focus on Authentic Corojo tobaccos, offering old-school smoking profiles that are described as being similar to cigars from Cuba's heyday.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 9.67

La Barba Cigars

La Barba Cigars is owned by Tony Bellatto and Craig Rossi. The cigars offer a boutique style and unique Dominican smoking experiences for craft enthusiasts.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 10.33

La Flor Dominicana

La Flor Dominicana is based in Tamboril, Dominican Republic, using complete vertical integration to become known as one of the top-ranked cigar manufacturers in the DR, if not the world.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 12.80

La Palina

La Palina is a modern-day rendition of a vintage brand, circa 1896. Originally founded as Congress Cigar Company by Sam Paley, the La Palina company is now run by Paley's grandson, Bill Paley.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 12.50

L'Atelier Imports

L'Atelier Imports is a sister company under the Tatuaje Cigars Inc./Havana Cellars umbrella. The name translates from French to mean "the workshop," with many L'Atelier cigars being themed around company owner Pete Johnson's love of French wine.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 10.75

Matilde Cigars

Matilde Cigars is owned and operated by the Seijas family, offering a solid core of four cigar blends that meet the demands of mild, medium, and full-bodied smokers alike.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 8.50

Meier & Dutch

Meier & Dutch is a wholesale cigar distributor and is a subsidiary of Scandinavian Tobacco Group—one of the world's largest tobacco companies.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 12.00

My Father Cigars

My Father Cigars is owned and operated by the renowned García family of cigarmakers. The company's cigars are produced in both Nicaragua and Miami.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 8.71

Nat Sherman

Nat Sherman is a world-famous tobacconist and cigar brand founded in 1930. Nat Sherman's cigars are crafted by high-profile cigarmakers in both Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 12.00

Nomad Cigar Company

Nomad Cigar Company was founded by Fred Rewey in 2012. Nomad produces craft-minded cigars that focus on quality and unique tobacco ingredients.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 12.00

Oliva Cigar Co.

With tobacco roots tracing back to 1800s Cuba, Oliva didn't come into today's prominence until 1995, when the family transitioned to Nicaraguan tobaccos during the cigar boom of the '90s.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 14.00

Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co.

Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. is best known for the LEAF by Oscar cigar brand. The company and factory operate out of Danlí, Honduras.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 11.20

Padrón Cigars

Padrón Cigars is one of the largest and most recognizable premium cigar brands in the world, known for creating full-bodied Nicaraguan cigars in box-pressed formats.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 15.00

PDR Cigars

PDR Cigars is managed by Abe Flores at his factory (of the same name) in Tamboril, Dominican Republic. The company is known for small-batch craftsmanship and traditional Cuban rolling techniques.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 11.00

Perdomo Cigars

Perdomo Cigars debuted during the great cigar boom of the early '90s, helping to launch the modern preference for full-bodied smoking experiences. Perdomo benefits from complete vertical integration, handling every step throughout the cigarmaking process.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 11.38

Plasencia Cigars

Plasencia Cigars is the self-branded arm of the Plasencia family's massive tobacco operation throughout Central America, showcasing the family's highly acclaimed tobaccos throughout their portfolio.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 15.33

Quesada Cigars

Quesada Cigars is managed by the Quesada family in the Dominican Republic—a fifth generation tobacco family that traces its heritage to the late 1800s in Cuba.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 10.00

Rocky Patel Premium Cigars

Rocky Patel Premium Cigars is named after its owner and founder, growing to become one of the industry's leading cigar companies since first launching in 1996.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 12.17

RoMa Craft Tobac

RoMa Craft Tobac is geared towards the boutique enthusiast, using small-batch production at the company's own factory in Estelí to maintain a dependable collection of flavor-forward smoking experiences.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 8.63

Room101

Room101 is owned by Matt Booth, among the cigar industry's most charismatic personalities. The brand is known for atypical stylings and smoking experiences.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 11.00

Southern Draw Cigars

Southern Draw Cigars is a family-based cigar operation out of Austin, TX. The company focuses on Southern values and strives for an ideal draw on every cigar.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 9.80

Tatuaje

Tatuaje Cigars was founded by Pete Johnson in 2003. The company is named after Johnson's tattoos, showcasing a modern take on Old World Cuban customs.

Company size: Medium

Average price: $ 10.10

Ventura Cigar Company

Ventura Cigar Company is the premium cigar division of Kretek International, being known for partnering with many high-profile manufacturers around the world for production.

Company size: Corporate

Average price: $ 12.00

Warped Cigars

Warped Cigars is owned and operated by Kyle Gellis, focusing on small-batch releases that reimagine Cubanesque cigars of old for the modern-day enthusiast.

Company size: Boutique

Average price: $ 10.67

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