The Plasencia family is in the midst of its 2017–2018 tobacco harvest, which Nestor Andrés Plasencia, vice president of Plasencia Tobacco S.A., says is exceptional.
Tobacco growers are looking to the past for new flavor, working with old seeds once lost to the annals of time.
After a late and extended growing season, the tobacco harvests of the Dominican Republic are finally wrapping up. Excessive rain from September to December of last year made it nearly …
In the mountains of Costa Rica, 4,000 feet above sea level, tobacco grower and cigarmaker Philip Wynn is almost done with his tobacco harvest of 2016. The last growing season started in …
The Cuban government declared October 10 as the official start of the planting season for the 2016-2017 tobacco crop.
It's harvest season for Dominican tobacco growers, and after a particularly dry 2015, the seedlings that went into the ground late last year have matured and are beginning to make their way …
In the back patio of Eumelio Espino Marrero's humble home, Triunfo struts around, showing off the proud result of nearly 20 years of his owner's hobby: creating a "bonsai chicken." The …
It's late morning and Siegfried Maruschke walks with his father down a smooth and immaculately clean concrete floor in a warehouse in the Dominican Republic. There's no need for the halogen …
There have been persistent rumors about severe tobacco shortages in the Cuban cigar industry, especially wrappers. Speculation swirled around an extended shutdown of factories at the end of …
Ecuador Havana has only been around for a dozen years, but it has become one of the cigar world’s favorite leaves
Premium cigar enthusiasts will soon have a new Florida-grown appellation of tobacco to look forward to, and it's coming via a young enterprise called Florida Sun Grown LLC. Started by …
An unusually dry growing season in the Dominican Republic resulted in a minor outbreak of the tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), a disease that causes tobacco plants to stop growing and die …
Despite all the technological innovation in the world today, cigarmaking really hasn’t changed much in the last few decades. Premium, handmade cigars, for the most part, are rolled from …
Rugged, dark Connecticut broadleaf is getting increasing respect as a wrapper for handmade, premium cigars
In an effort to meet the growing demand for Ecuador Havana wrapper, Oliva Tobacco Co. has purchased a new parcel of land in Ecuador dedicated to cultivating and curing more wrapper leaf for …
A tornado struck the Connecticut River Valley on Monday afternoon, tearing the netting away from a Connecticut-shade tobacco field and flattening plants that were almost ready to be …
Les Drent of the Kauai Cigar Co. is making sure that Hawaii is known for more than just beaches, sunshine and leis.
A hailstorm in Nicaragua turned a crop of tobacco destined to become Padrón cigars into a tattered mess.
