Cohiba is a brand for two kinds of premium cigar, one produced in Cuba for Habanos S.A., the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced in the Dominican Rebublic for US-based General Cigar Company. The name cohÃba derives from the Taino word for "tobacco."
The Cuban brand is filled with tobacco which, unique to Cohiba, has undergone an extra fermentation process.Cuban Cohiba was established in 1968 as a limited production private brand supplied exclusively to Fidel Castro and high-level officials in the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban government. Often given as diplomatic gifts, the Cohiba brand has developed a "cult" status.
