Cigars, no matter the price, size and shape, are always considered a luxury but none of them can get as luxurious as the 10 most expensive cigars in the world do. Not even the 10 most expensive cigarette brands. Whether it is to celebrate a victory over life’s everyday battles, something that is soon to be a happy memory or just celebrating the beauty of life, cigars have been the trusty companion of many men (and women, actually) who need to signify their celebration with something out of the ordinary. Cigars are not so much an everyday thing in the western world but in the countries where they have been smoked for centuries, they are nothing like the luxury we know them for, being smoked by men and women, young and elderly alike on any ordinary day.
Cigars have been around for longer than westerners have known tobacco even exists. Columbus himself was credited for the introduction of the fragrant plant to the Old World. He and his crewmen encountered the act of smoking rolled tobacco leaves while visiting the locals of the new discovered land. From then on tobacco went on to take over Europe and shortly after that, the Orient. You may not know that, but the times before the onset of the twentieth century and a little after had very little to do with cigarettes (which were rarely produced) and a lot more to do with cigars.
So, to cherish a tradition that is older than many countries, let’s take a look at the list of the ten most expensive cigars in the world.
10. Davidoff Royal Salomones
Sold for: $48/stick
Davidoff have been known and held dear as a major tobacco producer for a long time now. Setting the list off, this special Davidoff line would set you back with about forty-eight dollars per stick, although they also come in a humidor.
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9. Louixs
Sold for: $50/stick
Our ninth contender, the Goldwin Louixs is notorious for being the in-house cigar of the Beverly Hills Cigar Club. Other than that, this line of cigars runs for about fifty dollars a stick.
8. Opus X BBMF
Sold for: $55/stick
This peculiar specimen made by one of the most critically acclaimed manufacturers – Arturo Fuente, carries the name BBMF which stands for “Big Bad Mother F*****”. Named so probably by people angry at its price, this stick sells for fifty-five dollars for a piece.
7. Don Artura Edición Aniversario
Sold for: $78/stick
Another one of Arturo Fuente’s gems, the Don Artura Edición Aniversario, was created as a tribute to Fuente himself by his youngest son who now owns the factory. These would set you back close to eighty dollars a pop.
6. Opus X A
Sold for: $80/stick
The third consecutive Arturo Fuente creation, the Opus X A, runs for about eighty dollars for a piece. This cigar is the biggest and most rare produced by the legendary manufacturer, measuring a little over nine inches in length.
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5. Cohiba Behike
Sold for: $450/stick
The fifth contender in the list of the 10 most expensive cigars in the world is often dubbed “the most expensive in the world”. This it may be, regarding cigars you can easily access because these sell for about four hundred and fifty dollars per stick.
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4. Gurkha “His Majesty’s Reserve”
Sold for: $750/stick
Often held as the absolute most expensive, Gurkha’s HMR are made of eighteen year old tobacco, which is then soaked in some of the most expensive and rare liquor in the world and are then sold in boxes. If you’re crazy enough to try one of these, you would have to get on a three-year waiting list.
3. Gurkha Black Dragon
Sold for: $1 150/stick
Surprisingly (or not quite), Gurkha made an even more expensive line of cigars which each run for over a thousand dollars a piece. These are produced extremely rarely and sold to a number of people which are hand picked by Gurkha’s president himself.
2. Corojo – El Gigante
Sold for: $200 000/humongous stick
You may have guessed by the name that this is one big stick but you wouldn’t expect to know that this is actually the equivalent of twenty-five thousand cigars put together. This monstrosity looks like a novelty item but it’s actually sold with a special device which lets a number of people smoke this cigar together.
1. 600 Year Old Mayan Cigars
Sold for: over $500 000/lot
The prize in the list of the 10 most expensive cigars in the world surely goes to this lot of six cigars, each being at least six centuries old. These were unearthed and then deemed suitable for human consumption by experts. Soon after that, the lot of ancient cigars was auctioned off to someone who paid more than half a million for them.
