COO: Honduras
Wrapper: Pinareno
It’s called Sensorium, and it is a Honduran puro that is notable for using a tobacco called Pinareño, a Cuban-seed tobacco not normally grown by the Eiroa family due in large part to its susceptibility to disease and the difficulty that comes with cultivating it. The line also uses Honduran corojo grown by the Eiroas in the Jamastran Valley.
“We used some first-generation Piñareno seed from Cuba, my father grew in Jamastran,” said Christian Eiroa via a press release. “He has had this seed for decades, but had not grown it since 1979, when blue mold swept through Honduras in 1977. Any attempts to grow it in Honduras have yielded continuous losses of 25 – 40% on the field, due to its susceptibility to everything. Piñareno is truly the tastiest tobacco I have ever tasted, and I feel it is worth the sacrifice.”