The cigar is like wine, is a matter of mixing . It is made by assembling two or more often, three different tobacco leaves providing a subtle balance of flavors, power and combustibility. This assembly is then wrapped in a sheet of binder to the desired shape, then the whole is covered by a wrapper whose purpose is primarily aesthetic.
The art of making a cigar is therefore that of finding the best joint (ligament) to achieve the desired taste of architecture. For generations manufacturers, Dutch, English and U.S. mainly, have sought to have the greatest possible diversity of tobacco and, in this context, tested and developed multiple terroirs.
cigar tobaccos are harvested around the world: Philippines, Canary Islands, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela, Mexico, but the real quality is still not at the rendezvous.
Other countries have specialized in the cultivation of wrapper leaves: Ecuador, Brazil, Indonesia (Sumatra beautiful capes), USA (Connecticut famous capes) and Cameroon. The upper level
is occupied by countries all around the Caribbean Sea, which produce good quality cigars, especially since the Cuban revolution of 1949 has forced some of the best cigar makers in the country to seek new lands and states that the embargo United against Cuba from February 7, 1962 forced Americans to buy their cigars elsewhere.
Among them we find the Honduras and Nicaragua, whose development in cigars has long been hampered by an unstable political situation in which the Sandinista guerrillas blocked the initiatives in both countries. Ortega's party, the production has grown dramatically, mainly centered around Jalapa valleys in the region of Esteli in Nicaragua and Danli in eastern Honduras. With 100 million handmade cigars a year, that country is now the third largest in the world.
A ranking at the top of which there are - surprise - the Dominican Republic with 170 million handmade cigars a year. Is that the neighboring island of Cuba took advantage of the embargo on Cuba and the political instability in Central America. Davidoff provides the trigger on leaving Cuba in 1991 to settle noisily Dominican Republic and give it credibility that he lacked. The best plantations, located in the Cibao valley and the Yaque northwest of the country. They provide excellent filler leaves whose main characteristic is the light, forcing the Dominicans to import both stronger for their tobacco blends and wrapper leaves to produce their cigars.
Although Cuba is only the second largest producer of handmade cigars with about 140 million per year puros, they remain by far the best in the world. The reasons are many. Of course the work of men was, as always, paramount: it is in Cuba families of entrepreneurs have invented the art of producing cigars, the harvesting process, culture, maturation and production have been developed and agricultural engineers constantly develop plans for tobacco becoming more productive and resilient. But this would have been useless if Cuba had not presented under natural conditions (sunlight, humidity, rainfall, sea breezes and soil composition) constituent of soils producing tobacco whose quality has been unmatched thus far.
Cuba has five soils of tobacco ( Oriente, Remedios, Semi Vuelta, Partido and Vuelta abajo) which only two are eligible to produce sheets used in the manufacture of "Habanos"
Semi-Vuelta (between Havana and the Vuelta Abajo) and Oriente (in 'is, as its name implies) are exclusively used for cigarette production. Remedios, in the center of the island produces lower quality cigars, for the domestic market.
Note that in recent years, Cubans have decided to give new impetus to the land and especially Oriente Remedios, under the name of "Vuelta Arriba" (see map above). They produce cigars labeled "Habanos", but of lesser quality and lower cost. This is for example the case of Jose L. Marks Piedra Guantanamera and which are commercially successful interesting.
Partido , near Havana, is the land of early tobacco in Cuba but now produces almost more than wrapper leaves rather clear elsewhere.
the extreme west of the island lies the prestigious Vuelta Abajo whose red earth and sand were found from the eighteenth century a wealth absolutely incomparable and where are produced the best tobacco leaves, tripe like cape. is the mythical land of cigars in the world at the heart of which lies the enchanting valley of Vinales (above), heritage of humanity.
Pursuant to the Loi Evin 91-32, I remind you that "Smoking causes serious diseases" and "Smoking kills".
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