Puros Indios Siembra de Oro Magico

Siembra de Oro is a delicious, long-filler handmade from the storied Puros Indios factory and legendary hands of Rolando Reyes, Sr. Reyes started rolling cigars in Cuba at the age of fourteen and has rolled for such prestigious Cuban brands as H. Upmann, Romeo y Julieta, and Partagas, to name a few. In pre-Castro Cuba, his cigar factory manufactured over six million cigars a year! Widely recognized as one of the most talented tobacco blenders alive, anything he creates—at any price point—is a real treat. The cigar itself is exquisitely well made with no soft or hard spots. The blend consists of extensively aged (over three years) Honduran and Nicaraguan long-fillers which are wrapped in a natural Connecticut shade wrapper. Together they make for a medium-bodied profile brimming with notes of earth, pepper, cedar and coffee. Its easy draw produces lots of smoke. The Siembra de Oro is a flavorful, chewy, workhorse premium handmade at an unusual everyman price so you may want to put this one on the top of your reorder list. Consider smoking it with a full-bodied dry stout or a smoky single malt scotch.

Honduras has been a tobacco growing and cigar manufacturing area for hundreds of years, but it was the Communist revolution in Cuba that really put Honduras on the map. In the 1960s, many Cuban cigar makers fled their homeland and arrived in Honduras to re-establish their way of life. The immigrants took advantage of the climate, soil, and geography, which were well-suited to tobacco growing, and began producing high quality cigars. The center of the Honduran cigar industry is the city of Danli and the nearby Jamastran Valley. The majority of the world’s pure Corojo tobacco is grown here, now that Cuba has stopped production of this iconic, spicy, and rich variety in favor of Corojo hybrids. Other important areas of Honduran cigar production include the Talanga Valley, Copan, and Trojes.