The Romeo y Julieta Wide Churchills Cigar is the third cigar in the Romeo y Julieta line named after Winston Churchill, and it certainly lives up to its siblings’ name.
The Romeo y Julieta marque was established in 1875 by Inocencio Alvarez and Manin Garcia. The brand is the Spanish name for Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. However, the brand truly bloomed after it was acquired by Jose “Pepin” Rodriguez Fernandez, former head of the Cabañas factory in Havana, and his firm, Rodríguez, Argüelles y Cia, in 1903. Sir Winston Churchill was perhaps the brand’s most famous devotee. The flagship vitola of the brand is named in his honor, a long 7” by 47 ring gauge cigar known as the Churchill.