Diamond Crown Robusto #5

Diamond Crown Classic is J.C. Newman’s anniversary cigar. Handmade at Tabacalera A. Fuente, Diamond Crown Classic cigars are exquisitely rolled with either five-year-old Connecticut Shade or Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper around an exceptionally aged blend of Dominican binder and filler tobaccos. Diamond Crown Classic is packed in white cabinets with a piano finish inside a luxurious purple and gold carton. Diamond Crown Classic is the perfect cigar to celebrate special occasions or to smoke while enjoying the finest things in life.

Diamond Crown Classic cigars are creamy and smooth while still complex and flavorful. Diamond Crown’s exceptional taste comes from its double fermented wrappers. Nearly all tobacco is fermented a single time. Diamond Crown wrappers are conditioned, graded, selected, and fermented twice.  It is this second fermentation that evens and deepens the Rosado color of the tobacco wrapper and eliminates any potential rawness.  After being rolled, Diamond Crown Classic cigars are inspected three times to ensure perfection and are aged in lots of 50 cigars for a minimum of 12 months.

J.C. Newman first created Diamond Crown more than a century ago. From the beginning, Diamond Crown was a luxury cigar. When most cigars sold for 2 cents, Diamond Crown was a nickel. When the price of a typical cigar was 5 cents, Diamond Crown sold for a dime. Diamond Crown was a very popular brand before fading away shortly before World War II.

In 1995, Stanford J. Newman and Carlos Fuente, Jr. created Diamond Crown Classic to celebrate J.C. Newman’s 100th anniversary.  Diamond Crown revolutionized the cigar industry because it was the first cigar to have a 54 ring gauge, launching the trend of thicker cigars. Diamond Crown had the most ornate cigar packaging in the 1990s. Cigars were wrapped in tissue paper. The labels and bands were printed with gold foils and bronzing in Holland, and each cigar box was packed in the same luxurious outer carton as top-shelf liquor bottles. In 2024, J.C. Newman elevated the packaging of Diamond Crown Classic in preparation for the company’s 130th anniversary.