Cigar Life: Honduras Style

(smokemag.com) ... Honduras is home to some of the world’s top cigar brands including the non-Cuban Punch and Hoyo de Monterrey; Camacho, CAO, Rocky Patel, and Flor de Selva (the namesake brand from lead festival organizer, Maya de Selva). The nation boasts a tobacco tradition dating back to the Mayan empire (where millennial-old artifacts depict the gods puffing away on tobacco). Even today, despite all the attacks it is under around the world, tobacco remains the country’s fourth-leading export, just behind coffee, fruit, and palm oil. Within the realm of premium cigars, Honduras is one of the world’s top producers.
The cigar industry, from farming to rolling, is one of the country’ major job-creating industries. Last year, Honduras produced 76 million cigars, the vast majority of which are sent directly to the United States. Continued