CAO Cigars Maduro

C.A.O. Box-Pressed Tubo Maduro No. 2

Cigar Aficionado · Mar 1, 2002 · Cigar Insider

This dark cigar draws well. It's rich and chewy, with earthy flavors and a powdery finish. A spicy cigar, with alluring aromas.

Churchill · 7.00″ × 50 · Medium · Nicaragua

CAO Maduro

Holt's Staff Reviews · Jul 18, 2025

I’m smoking an old-school cigar, CAO Maduro, in a 5.5-by-55 Toro for today’s review. CAO Maduro cigars hail from Nicaragua, where they’re produced by General Cigar, the brand’s parent company, in a sizeable portfolio that includes Macanudo and non-Cuban Cohiba cigars. The brand is named after the initials of its founder, Cano Aret Ozgener, an engineer by trade who entered the tobacco business making meerschaum pipes in the 1970s. He introduced his cigar line in 1993 and grew the brand with his son, Tim, and daughter, Ayleen, before selling the company to General in 2007.