Tabacos de la Cordillera

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 18th 2005 at 4:02PM

Tabacos de la Cordillera offers cigars made of 100% genetically pure Cuban tobacco made from a bank of pre-Cuban embargo Cuban seeds. Tabacos de la Cordillera offers several cigar brands made only from tobacco derived from the seed bank, grown on the company's 65-acre farm in Puriscal, Costa Rica. The cigars on offer include the Cumbres de Puriscal, in 3 blends and 9 shapes ($3.25 to $5.90); Purisco, in two wrappers and 5 shapes ($2.70 to $4.75); Colinas™ (the only short-filler line, using picadura tobacco from Cumbres and Purisco), in 6 shapes (2.50 to $3.05); Picos™ mini-torpedoes, in 2 wrappers ($2.00); and Min Cigars, in 2 blends ($1.00). Many of the seeds used were developed when Cuban tobacco was at its peak. The director of the company, John Vogel acquired the seeds through his business travel to over 20 countries and his associations with world-renowned tobacco researchers and geneticists (although I prefer to imagine him dashing from Cuba with his pockets full of precious seeds).

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