Thursday, March 10, 2016

Out Of The Brick-Red Soil: A Visit To The Prieto Farm



(Cigar Aficionado) Green tobacco. Grows glossy and thick. Sprouting through the brick-red soil. That's a haiku, I think. And the best way to describe what I saw in Pinar del Rió's San Juan y Martinez growing region in Cuba on a long car ride from Havana to the farm of Hector Luis Prieto. Freshly tilled soil in this area is as red as bricks, red as rust. Continued

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