The Gran Habano - G.R. Tabacaleras Co. cigar factory located on "Calle Ocho", 8th street, in the Little Havana district of Miami is completed and ready to roll. Focusing on the highest standard for the cigar community the factory will employ 10 Cuban rollers who will produce no more than 1,000 cigars per day to ensure quality and consistency. This will be the base of our new cigar line “Gran Habano Miami” which will lead off with the soon-to-be-released Black Corojo, Opium Miami and the continuance of our STK program.
Black Corojo will be an extension of our popular Gran Habano Corojo #5 line. As the name implies, it will feature the industries first black corojo cigar wrapper. Due to the overwhelming success of our Opium release it will become a regular production cigar line known as Opium Miami. Production on both of these cigars will be based on traditional Cuban sizes and the blends will be revised to take the connoisseur to the next level.
Today's featured review comes from the Texas cigar blogger Tony Casas. He was kind of enough to take the time to review our latest release from the STK cigar line - the G..A.R. Opium. We especially love his reviews because he uses the opportunity to pair his cigar with a unique beverage and in this instance he went with "Prickly Passion Saison" beer. As usual we will post some segments from his review and we urge you to visit his website (link at the bottom) for the full reading.
“… The wrapper on this cigar gives off a very interesting sweet pine aroma while the foot produces nothing more than a bold tobacco scent... Instead of getting the run of the mill tobacco flavor I was anticipating the G.A.R. Opium let loose this crazy spicy, sweet, cedar flavor with even a bit of pepper on just the cold draw alone.”
Cigar blogger extraordinaire, G.C. Puffs, recently took the opportunity to review one of our newest releases of 2011 – the Gran Habano / G.A.R. Zulu Zulu Habano. The STK Zulu Zulu Habano measures 7 ½ x 40, uses a Nicaraguan wrapper, a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan filler. It is also a special release for us because a portion of the sales are being donated to the Invisible Children project. With that being said, allow us to share a few snippets from this review followed by a link G.C. Puff’s fabulous site:
“…the first few draws from the cigar abruptly caught my attention as I was met with a very pleasant mix of spice and dark roasted nuts, with the spice having not a black pepper taste but more of a spice mix of black and red pepper.”
