The Quesada family has been a part of the tobacco industry for over a century. When they first arrived in Cuba from Spain they were bakers. It was in the late 1800s that they began their tobacco business when a debt to the family was paid with tobacco.

In 1929, in searching for new and different tobaccos, the Quesada family arrived in the Dominican Republic, but the company remained based in Havana, Cuba until the 1960’s.

In 2008, Manuel Quesada joined forces with Nicaragua’s largest grower of cigar tobacco, Nestor Plasencia, and created Casa Magna Colorado in Plasencia’s Segovia Cigar factory. The line would go on to receive sterling reviews, including the Cigar of the Year in 2008. Quesada would build on the success of the Colorado by adding more lines, each a slightly tweaked version of the original.