Pura Sangre Super-premium Debuts from Ventura Cigar

(smokemag.com) The private blend of Nicaraguan tobacco grower and cigar maker Nestor Plasencia Sr., who emigrated from Cuba at age 15 to build a family tobacco growing and premium cigar businesses in Nicaragua and Honduras, has been developed into a new super premium brand, Pura Sangre, released by Ventura Cigar Company.
The line is hand made in Esteli, Nicaragua by Plasencia from a blend of Habano-seed seco and ligero filler from Condega, Estelí, and Jalapa, and finished with a five-year-aged Nicragauan Viso Habano wrapper. ... The dark, full-flavored cigar is the flagship brand of Ventura Cigar Company http://www.venturacigar.com/, a new venture of Kretek International, Inc.—a powerhouse in specialty tobacco importing and a major distributor of specialty cigarettes, OTP, and premium cigars. Continued