Friday, September 4, 2015

Cigar Review: Montecristo 80th Anniversary (Prerelease)

 

(Halfwheel) ... It’s known as the Montecristo 80th Anniversary and offered in a single 6 x 54 box-pressed belicoso size. While the blend uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, Altadis U.S.A. is making a much larger deal about one of the filler tobaccos: Pilotico. It’s a Cuban-seed Dominican-grown tobacco that hasn’t been grown because of disease.
Jose Mendez & CO., the noted tobacco growers, planted seeds brought over from Cuba by the farmer Pepe Mendez in the Navarette region of the Dominican Republic and that tobacco is being used in the cigar. Continued

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