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The Magic Behind Making a Cigar

The magic of cigar making, whether it’s a Cuban cigar or Honduran cigars, actually begins in the fields and the curing barns. Involved is the choice of soil, the type of seed and the timing of the harvest to bring the leaves to the barns in optimum condition. Of course, this is dependent on whether nature has cooperated. However put the weather aside, workers in the fields play a role in each of these choices.

At harvest time wrapper leaves are treated like pieces of fine crystal, as the smallest blemish affects the value of the leaf. The length of drying, the stacking of leaves into bales for fermentation, the duration and intensity of the fermentation are all critical .... Click here to read more