La Rosa de Sandiego Toro Gordo Connecticut
Manufacturer: Caribbean Cigars Trading
Semaforos de enabas 120 metros al norte
Esteli, Nicaragua
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Size: Ring 54 Length 6" (152 mm)
Full box - 21 pc
The need to start a cigar factory in Estelí, Nicaraguagrew out of necessity. We operate a cigar store in Miamiand it’s a store that sells a lot of bundles. So in 2006 we started our own factory to produce bundled cigars for our store. We quickly grew from making bundles tomaking cigars for other companies when we started working with the Toraños. We started with the Toraño Master, which was the first premium cigar we made. And it sold incredibly well and received a lot of praise from the magazines; if I’m not mistaken for a 4-year stretch it was Toraño’s number 1 selling brand.
We continued making cigars for Toraño; the Master Maduro, the Salutem, the Vault, and the Sam Lec- cia. All of these blends came about as the Toraños kept seeing the quality of our work and the variety of blends that we were developing. And as a result of that relationship we were introduced to Gurkha. And we’ve been making a lot of cigars for Gurkha like the Royal Challenge Connecticut and Maduro, the Heri- tage Habano and Maduro, the Rogue, the East India Classic: Havana Blend, the Red Witch, and the Cellar Reserve Platinum just to name some.
La Rosa de Sandiego has sweeter flavor profile and that requires an additional fermentation. That added fermentation not only makes the tobacco a little sweeter but it also produces a cleaner smoke. That’s why the La Rosa de Sandiego cigars have no bitterness or harshness whatsoever. Also, the rollers in our factory who make La Rosa de Sandiego only make that cigar.
The idea behind that blend was to have a marked dif- ference from the kind of Connecticut wrapped cigar you find in the market today, which is very light andmild. We wanted a Connecticut cigar with a lot of flavorand a little bit of power, a strength level approaching the medium range. We wanted it to be a cigar that you can smoke any time of day, not just a “morning cigar.” It is a cigar that you can certainly enjoy in the morning but also after lunch or even dinner because it has just enough power.
Strength: Medium 6/10
