The Plasencia family is in the midst of its 2017–2018 tobacco harvest, which Nestor Andrés Plasencia, vice president of Plasencia Tobacco …
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 …
In the mountains of Costa Rica, 4,000 feet above sea level, tobacco grower and cigarmaker Philip Wynn is almost done with his tobacco …
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 …
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 …
It's late morning and Siegfried Maruschke walks with his father down a smooth and immaculately clean concrete floor in a warehouse in the …
There have been persistent rumors about severe tobacco shortages in the Cuban cigar industry, especially wrappers. Speculation swirled …
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 …
An unusually dry growing season in the Dominican Republic resulted in a minor outbreak of the tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), a disease …
Despite all the technological innovation in the world today, cigarmaking really hasn’t changed much in the last few decades. Premium, …
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 …
A tornado struck the Connecticut River Valley on Monday afternoon, tearing the netting away from a Connecticut-shade tobacco field and …
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.
