Back in the Cigar Business: Sam Leccia

 

(Cigar Aficionado) ... The Black & White brand will have two blends, one called Black and one called White. White is being rolled by a small cigarmaker in Nicaragua, while Black is being rolled in a small factory in the Dominican Republic. Black features a leaf of fire-cured tobacco, seldom used in the cigar business. (Almost all cigar tobaccos are air cured.) “I have never smelled anything like this,” said Leccia. “We ended up using half a leaf in the blend…. It’s dark fired, it’s wood cured, which gives it that smoky aroma—it’s incredible. I don’t think it adds too much but it ties it all together.” Continued