Augustin Quintero and his brothers got their start in the cigar business in their hometown of Cienfuegos in the Las Villas province of Cuba in the 1920's. In 1940, they created the full-flavoured Quintero cigars brand which in those early years was a handmade Cuban cigar and one of the top export brands of Cuban cigars, especially popular in the Spanish cigar market.

The Quintero cigar line continues today within the Habanos range of Cuban cigars.

Quintero cigars are made from tobaccos from Cuba's Vuelta Abajo region and manufactured in the El Rey del Mundo cigar factory.  Today they are hand-finished Cuban cigars with 6 sizes, and three machine-made cigarillos: the Quintero Mini, the Quintero Club, and the Quintero Purito.

Quintero cigars are characterized as medium to strong flavoured with a classic Cuban cigar taste, smooth with subtle caramel and slight citrus and notes of spice. 

Little know about the Quintero cigar line is that it is one of the very few Cuban cigar brands that was not created in Havana. In fact, it started in the city of Cienfuegos, on Cuba’s south coast which is commonly known as the “Pearl of the South.”