4 the largest-produced size in the brand, it is the largest-production cigar on the island. This is to fine cigars what the Big Mac is to haute cuisine. 4, a petit corona measuring 42 ring gauge by 5 1/8 inches. The biggest-selling size in the brand lineup is the ubiquitous Montecristo No. There's one fairly simple explanation for the brand's rather mundane reputation. The cigar should prove to be a huge success and create some buzz for the largely lackluster brand. I have smoked some great examples of Edmundo (and some less than outstanding ones) in the last six months, both in Europe and in Cuba. One sign of Montecristo's improvement has been the introduction of a new size, the Edmundo, which measures 52 ring gauge by 5 3/8 inches.

Montecristo cigars have significantly improved in quality over the last two years, but so has the quality of all other Habanos. Cubans often believe that the biggest is the best, but there's no way in a month of Sundays that Montecristo is Cuba's best quality cigar. His notion about the best-quality Cuban cigars was different from mine. 'It's the biggest-selling cigar brand from Cuba, so it has to be the best,' he said, looking rather annoyed that I kept asking the same question. 'Why Montecristo?' I asked, feeling slightly irritated. 'No, no, no.what's the best-quality cigar of Cuba?' I asked again in my bad Spanish, expecting him to say Cohiba or maybe even Trinidad, but definitely something other than Montecristo. 'What's the best cigar of Cuba in your opinion?' I asked one of the tobacco experts at the La Corona factory in Havana about four years ago.

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