78370 CA-111 SUITE 145 LA QUINTA, CA 92253 Get Directions
78370 CA-111 SUITE 145 LA QUINTA, CA 92253 Get Directions
It starts with an Ecuadoran Havana 2000 wrapper. Not too exotic. Lots of cigarmakers use it. The binders are Ecuadoran, too. One is grown from a Cuban Havana Vuelta Arriba seed (HVA), but the other is a Dominican seed called Carbonell. There's a tobacco you don't see every day. I remember a conversation I had with Inoa once years ago. He said that Carbonell was one of the tobaccos used in a personal blend that late La Aurora patriarch Fernando León used to smoke before he passed away. Though, I don't think I've ever heard of Carbonell tobacco grown in another country.
The filler blend uses another uncommon tobacco variety called Negrito Canca, which is grown by Leo Reyes in the Dominican Republic. The Negrito Canca is combined with some Dominican Olor, but also with another Reyes tobacco called 20/20. Falto says that 20/20 is a Cuban hybrid seed developed by Reyes, and furthermore, Falto doesn't know of anyone using this tobacco. It's grown in small quantities. Sometimes this is why good tobaccos just sit around in a warehouse. The tobacco can be interesting and distinct, but there just isn't enough to justify a full-fledged production run so they get marginalized or forgotten. And those are just the kind of tobaccos that Falto is looking for.
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