In the early 2000s, Ernesto Padilla created the Padilla cigar brand in honor of his father Heberto, a Cuban tobacconist, poet, and political prisoner. The brand is known for making small batch premium cigars. The Padilla Single Batch Select Reserve is hand crafted at the Tabacalera Palma in the Dominican Republic. A hearty, full-strength cigar, the Single Batch Select Reserve is a Dominican puro that sports a Habano maduro wrapper and delivers warm notes of nuts, leather, and wood.