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Romeo y Julieta Churchill Tube

Deze longfiller sigaar van Romeo y Julieta is geproduceerd in Cuba. De naam van dit model was vroeger Julieta No. 2, maar later werd hij vernoemd naar de beroemde Britse premier Winston Churchill. Nu is Churchill een algemene naam geworden voor een grote corona. Het model van deze sigaar is een corona (churchill), met een lengte van 10.5 cm en een diameter van 17.1 mm. Het binnengoed van deze sigaar komt uit Cuba. Het omblad en dekblad komen ook uit Cuba. Deze sigaar kan het beste nog 2-3 jaar rijpen in een humidor. De sigaar heeft een sterkte van 4 op een schaal van 1-5. Deze sigaar heeft een rooktijd van 80-100 minuten.

 

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Cuba

Cuba is in the Caribbean and is world famous for its high quality tobacco and cigars. Even before Columbus discovered Cuba in 1492 were all tobacco grown in Cuba by the Cohiba's a local Indian tribe. Cuba is a poor country and can hardly develop itself since the US embargo in 1962.

Most tobacco plantations are here still maintain full manual. No tractors with diesel engines but oxen pulling the plow. Everything is done here by hand and you can taste it in the finished product. Nowadays produced 180 million cigars annually, of which 90 million handmade cigars are exported abroad.

The tobacco from Cuba has an exceptionally high quality, the soil and the humid tropical climate and a centuries-old experience of growing tobacco. The tropical heat is often a mist over the fields where the tobacco grows. A natural shade deck. There are several regions in Cuba where the tobacco grows.

The famous Vuelta Abajo region in the province of Pinar Del Rio is the area at the western tip of Cuba, nestled between mountains and coast and is the largest province. It is heuveligachtig, green and lush, somewhat like Southeast Asia. The soil and climate conditions are perfect for growing tobacco, the main industry. Here, is cultivated to 70% of the Cuban tobacco. The bottom is of red, sandy clay. Full of minerals that give Cuban cigars somewhat of a salty touch. Tobacco is grown on small fields, often privately owned, although the tobacco is sold at a fixed price to the government. The fields give the landscape the image of a patchwork. Everywhere can be seen small farms and typical dry sheds. Most of the land is used in this area for the cultivation of wrapper, the other for filler and binder.

Center of the island north of Trinidad is the large tobacco field Remedios, the oldest tobacco fields of Cuba. From this area also comes in good Sigarenfabriek Elephant used in its blend. Then there are two tobacco fields near Vuelta Abajo namely Semi Vuelta, Partido. Located in the South East still Oriente, a smaller area north of Santiago de Cuba. In this area is primarily tobacco are grown for the production of cigarettes.

Because there is no export of Cuban cover or wrapper there are several countries in the world who grow tobacco with the original Cuban seed. Especially in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras. Yet these tobaccos have different properties and characteristics than the tobacco grown in Cuba.

Cuban cigars stand for quality and class. Typically, the full character of a strong and relatively heavy. Precisely for this reason very suitable for the experienced smoker. They are characterized by relatively fixed rolled cigars and therefore have a considerable tensile strength. While smoking unfolds a strong spicy and earthy aroma with notes of leather with a slight peppery taste salty.
The name Romeo y Julieta is as Habanomerk founded in 1875, it comes from the literary tragedy of the same name by the English writer William Shakespeare.

The brand has garnered international fame during the early years of the 19th century, after Don "Pepin" Rodriguez first recognized the importance of the cigar as a success factor.
It has been calculated that there are used up to 20,000 different cigar during production.

Winston Churchill was one of the biggest fans of the brand Romeo y Julieta. After his visit to Havana in 1946 his name was not only listed on the Habano cigar-but the most famous vitola brand was named after him: Churchills of Romeo y Julieta.

In the 21st century, two new vitolas have already entered the market. In 2006, the Short Churchill, a robust cigar that was lacking in the Vito lario of the brand and is presented at the 12th Festival of the Habano the Wide Churchills in 2010, a new format that cepo 55 inaugurating, for lovers of thicker vitolas.

The balanced and aromatic blend with carefully selected binnengoed- and ombladeren from the Vuelta Abajo region makes the Romeo y Julieta classical Habano with medium flavor.

Today Romeo y Julieta enjoys great reputation around the world and offers one of the widest ranges of vitolas the Habanomerken. The Romeo y Julieta is entirely hand crafted in the Longfiller technique (Totalmente a Mano, Tripa Larga).

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