A Tale of Two Tobacco Seeds

(Smoke Magazine) Criollo and Corojo - twin legacies of Cuba’s historic cigar making heritage - are the hottest leaf varieties out there, and they’re more different, and similar, than you realize. ... Whereas the first U.S.-sold cigars to use the term appeared less than a decade ago, the story of Corojo actually hearkens back to the 1930s, to a farm in Cuba’s legendary Vuelta Abajo region named Santa Ines del Corojo. There a tobacco farmer named Diego Rodriguez first developed the seed, which was named for the farm (or vega) where it was born. For many years, Corojo proved to be the ideal wrapper leaf for many Cuban cigars. Continued

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