Macanudo Robust was introduced with immediate success in 1998.

The finished cigar was the culmination of many attempts over a period of four years to develop what many skeptics regarded as an unreachable goal: a robust yet smooth-tasting cigar. The robustness of Macanudo Robust comes from a blend of the richest Dominican Piloto Cubano tobaccos and a unique Havana-seed binder grown in the fertile Connecticut River Valley especially for this cigar. The smoothness of Macanudo Robust comes from the darkest and most thoroughly aged of all Connecticut Shade wrappers. The result is a deeper dimension of true cigar taste that embodies all of the smoothness that has always distinguished the leading premium brand.