(Cigar Aficionado) The sandy, loamy soil of the Connecticut River Valley and its warm microclimate provide fertile ground for flavorful tobacco and August is harvest time for both shade-grown wrapper and its thicker, darker cousin, broadleaf. Cigar Aficionado's Greg Mottola headed up to Ellington, Connecticut, to check out this year’s crop of wrapper leaves. Most of the shade-grown farms are owned by O.J. Thrall Inc., a private company renowned for its vast acreage of shade-grown tobacco, and the primary supplier to General Cigar Co. Continued
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