Cuban Cigars, the best in the world

Main regions

Cultivation

Leaves processing

Tobacco regions

Work starts with the burning heat of June and July, and continues without respite for nine months.

Cultivation

Preparation of the land

Animal traction is still used, to avoid the compacting of the soil and obtain a loose one.

The seed bed

35 days, 15-20 cm

Growing in La Vega or the tobacco field45 -50 days

Shade grown Sun grown

For wrapper leaf.

It is the most expensive leaf to produce.

For filler and binder

variety of flavours that are blended to form the rich and complex taste of one Habano.

Leaves are picked at intervals from the bottom to the top, allowing the plant develops its remaining leaves between each pickings.

Harvesting

a laborious task because each leaf must be picked by hand. Only two or three leaves can be taken at a time.

a single plant takes about 30 days to complete the harvesting.

Processing the leaves

Many months and in some cases years will pass before the leaf is ready to make an Habano.

1. Curing

60-90 days

After this process the leaves go to the factory.

In the Factory

3. Sorting and classification

Size, colour and texture

4. Stripping

2. 1st Fermentation

sweats out impurities in the leaf, reducing acidity, tar and nicotine. 35-45 days

filler and binder leaf

5. 2nd Fermentation

filler and binder leaf

6. Ageing

Could take until 3 months, and depending on the leaf, 3 or more fermentations

The fullest-flavoured leaf is aged the longest and the lightest-flavoured leaf is aged the least. Like a fine wine, the longer the wine is left to mature, the better it will be.

How the Habano is made?

Many steps

Is a process that requires highly specialized and experienced rollers

Preparing the Wrappers

Preparing the Fillers

Composing the Blend

Finally, three years or more since the oldest leaf was picked, it is now about to become an Habano..

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