Jaime Partagas created this brand in 1845. Cigar masters Ramn Cifuentes and Ramn Cifuentes, Jr. made Partagas the leading Cuban cigar. But in 1961, Ramn Cifuentes was forced to flee Cuba, never to return. Seventeen years later, he was finally able to begin creating his Partagas cigars again, this time in the Dominican Republic, where his unmatched tradition of cigar making remains alive and well. The Partgas Maduro cigar boasts a dark, oily Cameroon maduro wrapper.