COO: Nicaragua
Wrapper: Jalapa
“This is something very special,” says Nestor Andrés Plasencia, opening a box of Plasencia Alma del Cielo cigars. The cigar, named for “soul of the sky,” features some tobacco that is grown on a farm in the mountains of Nicaragua—and the farm is 3,500 feet above sea level. “In tobacco I haven’t seen any other place that does that,” says Plasencia. “The view is unbelievable.”
So why this farm? There’s a family connection. It was a cattle and coffee farm that was owned by Melalina Torres, Plasencia’s maternal grandmother, who spent time there in her youth before her father had to sell it in 1961. “We were raised listening to the stories of that farm,” says Plasencia. “I get the love of tobacco from my father and the love of nature from my mother.”
Also available in boxes of 10.