Selected Tobacco S.A.

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Selected Tobacco S.A. is the Costa Rican company behind some of the world's most allocated luxury cigar marques: Atabey, Byron, Bandolero, and Alfonso, blended with Nelson Alfonso and rolled at Tabacos de Costa Rica. The portfolio is defined by extended aging, tiny production runs, and retailer allocations that treat Costa Rica as a luxury origin, not a secondary fill-in country.

Selected Tobacco occupies the ultra-premium end of a factory that also hosts more accessible boutiques (Lampert, Casdagli, LH Premium). That mix lets one Costa Rican institution serve both five-figure humidor culture and everyday premium experiments. Brand identity leans ceremonial naming, ornate packaging, and aging theater rather than Estelí street-boutique energy or STG volume heritage names.

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