Flor de las Antillas Sun Grown
The 2012 Cigar of the Year. Box-pressed Nicaraguan sun grown - balanced, toasty, medium-bodied.
Flor de las Antillas is made by the Garcia family at My Father Cigars and earned Cigar Aficionado's Cigar of the Year in 2012. MDC distributes the line to venues that want a decorated, crowd-pleasing Nicaraguan at a working price.
Awards move cigars, and Flor de las Antillas has the biggest one there is: Cigar of the Year. More than a decade later, that box-pressed sun grown is still one of the easiest recommendations in the humidor - balanced, toasty, medium-bodied, and priced well below what the pedigree suggests. Guests who try it come back for it.
MDC carries 11 active Flor de las Antillas SKUs across its vitolas. It earns a place in most of our opening proposals as the decorated value pick - the cigar your staff can sell with one sentence: "This one won Cigar of the Year."
“Flor de las Antillas is in our standing rotation because the accounts we serve - from casinos to cigar bars - sell through it consistently. That's the only reason a brand stays on our line card.”
Not every SKU in the Flor de las Antillas catalog is in our standing rotation - we curate to what actually moves at retail. These are the core lines we keep in depth.
The 2012 Cigar of the Year. Box-pressed Nicaraguan sun grown - balanced, toasty, medium-bodied.
The darker sibling. Same Garcia construction with a sweeter, richer maduro profile.
Flor de las Antillas fits almost every floor. The medium-bodied, balanced profile makes it a safe recommendation in hotel bars, golf shops, and steakhouses, while the award pedigree gives lounges and casino programs an easy talking point. Liquor stores love it because the shelf card writes itself. If a venue can only stock one My Father-family line, this is usually the one we suggest first.
MDC's active Flor de las Antillas SKUs run roughly $134-$218 per box wholesale, and venues typically retail at 1.8x-2.5x wholesale. For a Cigar of the Year winner, that is one of the best pedigree-to-price ratios on our entire line card.
The MDC approach to any brand is the same: start with a curated core rotation sized to your venue, prove sell-through, then layer in deeper SKU coverage as the account matures. For a typical hospitality account, a Flor de las Antillas program begins with 2–3 vitolas across 40–60 cigars of opening depth, paired with the other brands that complement your overall humidor structure.
Because Flor de las Antillas is one of the core workhorse brands in the category, it's almost always part of the MDC opening-proposal for any new account - the exact SKUs and depth vary by whether you're running a bar-led hospitality program, a dedicated cigar lounge, or a pro-shop display. Your rep builds the proposal fast once you apply, with real numbers keyed to your venue.
Other brands frequently paired with Flor de las Antillas in MDC programs: My Father , Jaime Garcia , La Aroma De Cuba , San Cristobal . For the complete list of brands MDC distributes, see the wholesale cigar brands index. For the programs each brand fits - hospitality, retail, cigar bar - see Cigars for Hospitality and Cigars for Retail.
Apply to open an MDC account. We'll look at your venue profile, your existing rotation (if any), and tell you exactly what a Flor de las Antillas program should look like on your floor - opening SKUs, depth, price points, and how it pairs with the rest of your humidor.
Every month without Flor de las Antillas on your shelf is margin your competitors are collecting. Your rep can have it in your first shipment within a week of approval.
P.S. Flor de las Antillas has been in MDC's standing rotation for 14+ years. If MDC can help your business, we can get you into a first shipment within a week of qualifying.