Tabacalera Turrent (San Andrés Tuxtla)

Tabacalera Turrent is the Turrent family's tobacco and cigar operation in the San Andrés Valley of Veracruz, Mexico. The family grows tobacco there and rolls cigars at Nueva Matacapan Tabacos, S.A. de C.V., a factory in the San Andrés Tuxtla area. Its house brands include Te-Amo and Casa Turrent.

The Turrent tradition of growing tobacco in the valley began in 1880. That date comes from the company and from Alberto Turrent, who told Cigar Aficionado that his great-grandfather started the work. The family has stayed in the same region for five generations. Alberto Turrent said he joined the company in November 1960, when it was mainly exporting tobacco to Europe, and that its U.S. leaf business grew after the embargo on Cuba. He and his son Alejandro later ran Nueva Matacapan de Tabacos, which Cigar Aficionado described as Mexico's largest cigar-tobacco operation. The magazine also wrote that their San Andrés maduro leaf is used in many popular premium cigars.

The company created Te-Amo in 1966. Casa Turrent, its later ultra-premium line, is made at the same factory. Mexican San Andrés wrappers also appear on brands already on this map, including Murciélago, Undercrown and Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 3. Those pages record the leaf origin. They do not name Tabacalera Turrent as the supplier.

In a statement issued January 20, 2026, Tabacalera Turrent said that as of May 2025, Alejandro Turrent Silva and the company Casa Turrent, S.A. de C.V. no longer had any commercial relationship with Tabacalera Turrent. It said Grupo Tabacalera Turrent now does business only through Nueva Matacapan Tabacos, S.A. de C.V. and Nueva Distabac, S.A. de C.V., and that Nueva Distabac is the only company authorized to distribute its products in the Mexican market. The brands listed in that statement include Te-Amo, Casa Turrent, A. Turrent, Matacán and others. The statement does not describe how those brands are sold in the United States.