innovador
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Back in 1996 when I was much younger and audacious, I went to Cuba to get me some cigars. Among the acquisitions I made at that time, there were two boxes of Montecristo A. Monte A was the larger cigar shape that Cuba made at that time. When I tried some the Monte As, the draw was too tight for smoking. I kept the cigars well humidified until yesterday that I decided to do an experiment with them. I was going to open some Monte As and take apart the different type of leaves (volado,ligero,seco and the capa) and prepare them to steam them with Virginia pipe tobacco to make some new blends. You know different time of steaming for the different type of leaves.
When I was doing the classification of the leaves, I found a very special seco leaf that called my attention for its exquisite fragance. I was not going to steam that leaf!. So I decided to make small fragments and smoke it on top of some Virginia tobacco in my pipe.
After a frustrating morning at the work today, I took my lunch break and went to execute my elaborate plan and smoke the habano seco leaf in my pipe. At first, the intensity of the smoke was too high but the extraordinary aroma overcame it soon and made it very palatable and anjoyable. The only thing to complain about was that the smoke came to an end too soon. Really, a memorable smoke!!!
It is a shame that Cuba only produce a second rate pipe tobacco (picadura) named La Escepcion. They dont know
what they are missing.
When I was doing the classification of the leaves, I found a very special seco leaf that called my attention for its exquisite fragance. I was not going to steam that leaf!. So I decided to make small fragments and smoke it on top of some Virginia tobacco in my pipe.
After a frustrating morning at the work today, I took my lunch break and went to execute my elaborate plan and smoke the habano seco leaf in my pipe. At first, the intensity of the smoke was too high but the extraordinary aroma overcame it soon and made it very palatable and anjoyable. The only thing to complain about was that the smoke came to an end too soon. Really, a memorable smoke!!!
It is a shame that Cuba only produce a second rate pipe tobacco (picadura) named La Escepcion. They dont know
what they are missing.