CigarsLover Magazine Awards Issue

CIGARS
AWARDS
Best Brand
Rest of the world
When cigar lovers talk about tobacco and different
terroirs, many of the major countries are
named. The more versed smoker might throw
in some smaller countries from time to time,
but one country that you don’t hear about often, if at all, is
China. The Great Wall Cigar company has set out to change
that. The company was founded in 1918 by Wang Shuyan in
Shifang. Back then, it was called the Yichuan Cigar Factory.
Shifang is the hometown of tobacco cultivation and cigars
in China and has a history of planting tobacco leaves for nearly
400 years. In 1958, Marshal He Long renamed the factory
to what it is known today, the Great Wall Cigar Factory.
Over the years, the Great Wall Cigar brand became the most
famous and most sold cigars in the land and was also given
to many foreign Leaders as a diplomatic gift, such as President
Nixon, when he visited the country in 1972. Nowadays,
Great Wall Cigar Factory has become the world’s most extensive
cigar production base, with an annual production
capacity of an incredible 5 billion cigars. They also boast
the largest cigar aging room in the world, also known as the
“Asian Cigar Bank”.
For the last couple of years, Great Wall Cigar has focused
its attention on increasing their presents in the international
market, and they have done so with great success. Products
like the Great Wall Miracle and the Fusion Edition (a
collaboration with Vega Fina Cigars) have done very well in
our magazine. The Fusion Edition Piramides even placed
fourth in the Awards last year in the Rest of the World category,
not forgetting the Great Wall Victory, which made it
into the Awards this year.
With how well their cigars have performed over the course
of the past 12 months, it was only natural to award them
with the Best Brand in this category, and we are sure that
more awards will follow in the future if they keep it up.
136 #5-2022 CigarsLover Magazine