La Palina: Mr. Sam Corona Cigars

La Palina's history dates to Chicago 1896 when Ukrainian émigré Samuel Paley established Congress Cigar Company and released his debut blend: La Palina, named after his wife. At its height, Congress Cigar Co. rolled one million cigars per day, but the Great Depression doomed the factory, like so many other businesses, and the company folded — lost to time if not for Samuel's grandson Bill Paley, who resurrected the La Palina name in 2010. Committed to the same excellence as his grandfather, Bill Paley revived La Palina as a "personal, signature luxury cigar," and the brand custom-sources tobaccos and partners with renowned factories in Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Miami, USA, for a range of distinctive, premium cigars.

The Mr. Sam cigar honors La Palina's founder Samuel Paley, affectionately known as "Mr. Sam" throughout the original Congress Cigar Co. factory. As a cigar, it's among La Palina's most premium blends — hand-rolled at the prestigious El Titan de Bronze factory in Miami — and it showcases an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper around Nicaraguan binder and fillers for a nuanced and complex flavor profile full of spice.