Montecristo is the most famous and perhaps the most appreciated of all Habanos brands. It could be considered that Montecristo is the reference by which all other Habanos are measured.
His name originates in the novel ?? The Count of Monte Cristo? by Alejandro Dumas. The tabaquería reader read the novel to the Torcedores de la Fábrica de H.Upmann in Havana, where the brand was founded in 1935. Such was the acceptance, that it was decided to give the name of the protagonist of the novel to the new brand.