Plasencia

Cigar Brand Highlight

DISTRIBUTOR: Plasencia 1865

Owned by father-and-son team Nestor Plasencia Sr. and Jr., the Plasencia tobacco operation is quite vast. In addition to large cigar factories in both Nicaragua and Honduras, the family (whose combined factories produce more than 35 million cigars a year) grows approximately 3,000 acres of tobacco in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama.

Plasencia Product Lines

Alma Fuerte

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Plasencia in the news

Plasencia’s Sky-Kissed Alma del Cielo Now Available

May 16, 2025

The Nicaraguan cigar with high-altitude tobacco is making its way to retailers.

Plasencia Creates High-Altitude Alma del Cielo

April 10, 2025

A new cigar unveiled at the PCA trade show turns tradition on its head, and it comes from a company with generations of experience growing tobacco.

Plasencia’s Six-Sided Cigar Gets A Six-Sided Tubo

April 2, 2025

The hexagonally-shaped Alma Fuerte Colorado Claro Sixto II will have a hexagon tubo.

Plasencia Cigars Names New CEO

March 4, 2025

Plasencia has found its man, appointing Edward Bello as its new CEO.

Plasencia Celebrates Year Of The Snake

December 3, 2024

Plasenica’s El Año de la Culebra Edición Limitada 2025 is a somewhat non-traditional take on the culebra, a 10-count box that contains eight traditionally shaped smokes and a culebra of two …

2024 Big Smoke Las Vegas Seminars: $100-Plus Cigars

November 7, 2024

There was a notable air of intrigue as a trio of cigarmakers, each of them playing a role in the new world of $100-plus cigars, made their way to the stage during the Big Smoke Las Vegas …