The name was first used for a Habano in 1848 and has since enjoyed a reputation for quality. It was first registered by Don Emilio Ohmsted and after his death in the 1880s, the factory was bought by Ramón Allones and H. Upmann. They preserved the brand’s quality and in 1940 it was registered under the name Rey del Mundo Cigar Company. As in other great Habano brands, Sancho Panza Cuban Cigars takes its name from a masterpiece of world literature. In Don Quixote, the famous seventeenth-century Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes, it was Sancho Panza who was the faithful squire of the errant
