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The Padron 1964 Anniversary Series was released in 1994 when the company celebrated 30 years in business. The cigar was made by company founder (and Cuban emigree) Jose Orlando Padron and his son Jorge. The idea was to make a high-end cigar from exceptional tobaccos with more age. Before 1994, Padron’s production was mostly made up of its flagship brown-label brand. It was a good cigar at a good price and still is but a creation for an anniversary as big as 30 years had to be taken to the next level. The final product was a cigar of sun-grown, Cuban-seed tobaccos from Nicaragua. It was Jose’s idea to give the cigars the signature box-pressing. He wanted a smoke that resembled the cigars he used to enjoy in Cuba. Not that we invented the box-press, said Jorge Padron, but at the time there weren’t any box-pressed cigars in the market.
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Description
The Padrón 1964 Anniversary “A” Natural is one of the largest vitolas in one of the most decorated cigar lines ever produced — a genuine benchmark release that helped define what a modern box-pressed cigar could be.
Construction & Origin
Introduced in 1994 to mark Padrón’s 30th anniversary, the 1964 Anniversary line uses 100% Nicaraguan tobacco aged four years before rolling, hand-produced at Tabacos Cubanica S.A. This substantial 8¼ x 50 “A” vitola carries a sun-grown natural wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and filler, finished in Padrón’s signature box-pressed, Cuban-tradition style with a double-band design that includes an individually numbered guarantee label to help authenticate genuine Padrón cigars.
Flavor Profile
Medium to full-bodied, this cigar delivers coffee, cocoa, earth, and hazelnut, with reviewers consistently noting toasted wood, black pepper, and a rich, evolving complexity that builds steadily through the smoke. The line has earned some of Cigar Aficionado’s highest honors ever recorded — a 97-point rating and the outlet’s #1 Cigar of the Year for 2021, with the Torpedo vitola specifically praised for “notes of hazelnut” that “segue into a rich, opulent smoke of cocoa bean.”
Why It’s Sought After
Few cigar lines carry this level of sustained, decades-long acclaim — the 1964 Anniversary Series has appeared on “best cigars” lists consistently since its 1994 debut, and its commercial success is credited with inspiring the widespread adoption of box-pressed and trunk-pressed shapes across the entire industry. For anyone building a serious humidor, this remains one of the true benchmark releases every collector eventually seeks out.
Additional information
| Packaging Type | Single |
|---|---|
| Strength | Medium-Full |
| Origin | |
| Wrapper | Nicaragua |
| Binder | Nicaragua |
| Filler | Nicaragua |
| Length | 6" |
| Gauge | 52 |
