Always a restless perfectionist, Ramon Cifuentes became fascinated by the challenge of creating a super-premium Partagas cigar. The task proved to be an arduous one, but the great cigar master eventually gave his approval to release the first Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas cigars in 1991. Since they were introduced, Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas cigars have become as famous for their scarcity as they are for their quality, because the rigorous standards for these premium handmade cigars preclude anything but the most limited production.

For the blend, only one of every hundred of the longest, finest filler leaves grown in the Dominican Republic and the St. Andres Tuxtla Valley of Mexico are selected and aged in numbered lots. For the wrappers, only an average of three in a thousand of the richest Cameroon wrapper leaves are selected from the Partagas reserves. The tobaccos and ultimately the cigars then undergo the most prolonged aging processes in rooms built of Spanish cedar. Carefully monitored after regular intervals, only those cigars that mature most gradually are deemed worthy of the Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas name. From the month and year the cigars are placed in cedar-room storage to the earliest release date for the packed cigars, the details of the aging process are duly recorded by hand on a notice of certification contained in each handcrafted mahogany box.

To savor a Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas cigar is to treasure the exquisite qualities of one of the rarest of all cigars.