Yagua (J.C. Newman)
Yagua is a cigar brand from the J.C. Newman house, produced in Nicaragua at the PENSA factory in Estelí. The cigar embraces irregularity: dried in bundles wrapped in Cuban royal palm leaves, each example takes on its own distinct shape. The line concentrates on a single Toro format with a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper.
Yagua (J.C. Newman) is a cigar brand from Nicaragua, founded in 2019. Made by J.C. Newman Cigar Co.. Humido lists 3 cigars from the brand. Most common sizes: Toro (2) and Robusto (1). Average press rating across its cigars: 85/100.
History
The idea for Yagua was born in 2019 from a conversation between Drew Newman, a fourth-generation member of the J.C. Newman family, and Lázaro López, manager of the PENSA factory. López recalled his grandfather rolling his own cigars in Cuba during the 1940s and 1950s, bundling them with yagua leaves so they dried together. Drew Newman chose to revive the method. First introduced in 2019, Yagua was later released as a limited-production J.C. Newman cigar, aged roughly one year after production.