Bucanero Cigars

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 27th 2006 at 5:07PM

Top 25 Cigar has an interview with Bob Spoden of Bucanero Cigars. Bucanero was established in 1995. While in Costa Rica, Spoden found his passion and fell in love with cigars. Bucanero manufactures a limited quantity of aged, premium cigar blends and the business takes its name from Spanish pirates that plundered the Moors in Northern Africa. Spoden vows that his company will remain a small boutique cigar maker and that his cigars will never darken the doors of a Wal-Mart. The interview also goes into the naming process behind many of Bucanero's blends. One thing that I found interesting is that the companies uses a Draw Master machine to test each cigar before it is hand rolled to make sure that the cigar isn't plugged up. Spoden says that in over ten years of business not one box of their cigars has ever been returned from a retailer for a plug issue due to construction. Spoden also suggests that a cigar rest at home for one month in your humidor before smoking, especially if you purchase via mail order.

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