Monday, March 14, 2011

General Cigar Sorts Superior Connecticut Tobacco Crop



(Cigar Aficionado) General Cigar Co., maker of Macanudo, Partagas and various other premium cigars and a major grower of tobacco in the Connecticut River Valley, is sorting the 2010 crop of Connecticut shade tobacco in its cigar factory and tobacco processing facility located in Santiago, Dominican Republic. So far, the results are far better than average—so good that the company is certain to declare it a vintage year. Continued

Photo: The Welden House cigar. Manufactured by Z.P. King, Hartford, Conn., circa 1869 (Library of Congress).

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