BETTER THAN EVER

We’re excited to be in production again making the small batch cigars you love!

Back in February of this year, the land our Whittier Blvd. building sat on was sold. After being there 23 years we were told that we had to leave within 30 days. By March we had moved into our new building but were closed due to construction and expected to open again in April. Mid-March, in the middle of construction, we were forced to stop production and construction because of state stay-at-home orders.

Being shut down a second time was quite the blow, yet we adapted. We took phone order and shipped every week of the shut down until we no longer could. In fact, for the first time in 23 years, we sold out of smokes!

We sincerely appreciate customers calling, ordering, then pre-ordering for our re-opening, and sometimes just checking in on us to see if we're doing okay. It really made a difference and gave our family business the fuel to come back better than ever.

Now that we are open again, we invite you to visit our new store on La Habra Blvd.

HISTORY

El Beso Cigars is a flourishing family-owned and operated cigar company that was established in 1997. The tradition of hand rolling cigars was passed down to our founder and Master Tobacconist, Gloria Gomez through the matriarchal line of our family. Her passion for crafting high quality cigars can be traced back three generations and began over a century ago in the 1800s in Nicaragua.

Gloria named her cigar shop “El Beso” which translates to “The Kiss” to reflect the poetic relationship between a cigar and their smoker. The reverence for tobacco originated from the indigenous kingdoms that ruled in the Americas, and to this day we source our tobacco from these same regions.

For over 20 years Gloria built El Beso Cigars into the small-batch tobacco factory it is today, passing down her knowledge and secret family blends to the next generation of cigar rollers. The memory of Gloria lives on in the passion and attention to detail that goes into our unique cigars, from the Aromatic to Maduro her legacy and art is alive and well. Our attention to craftsmanship, blend and taste is what sets apart El Beso Cigars from other cigar makers.