Description
For the second consecutive year, there will be a shipment of the original CAO Amazon Basin.
The Amazon Basin debuted in 2014 as a limited edition cigar, but its popularity has meant that General Cigar Co. has brought the cigar back for subsequent shipments over the years.
It is a 6 x 52 toro incorporating an Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper, a Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos grown in Brazil, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. However, the highlight of the blend is the Brazilian filler, which includes a tobacco called Bragança, which General says can only be harvested every three years. The tobacco plants are spaced out further apart from one another than normal—the company says a full yard—and once harvested, the leaves are rolled into tubes called carottes for six months of aging. General says that tobacco is then shipped out of the rainforest via canoes.
Of note, when the cigar was first released in 2014, the blend was described as having Brazilian and Nicaraguan tobacco in the filler. General has released a number of Amazon line extensions, including the CAO Amazon Fumo em Corda, CAO Amazon Anaconda and CAO Orellana.
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