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Stogie Fresh - Podcast Episode-90-Pinar del Rio
1941 |
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Sunday, November
11, 2007 |
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www.stogiefresh.com/journal/Site/Podcast/Entries/2007/11/11_Episode-90-Pinar_del_Rio_1941.html |
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DESCRIPTION: This week’s featured cigar
is the new Pinar del Rio 1941 Torpedo. This is an
incredibly rare cigar that has a miniscule production
run of 8,000 cigars or only 320 boxes in this line. |
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So what’s the story on this cigar?
Well, in 1941, a
revolutionary new
strain of tobacco was developed in
Cuba by the island’s esteemed
tobacco research facility
know as
Cuban Land. First introduced and
released to
regional farmers in 1941,
this tobacco was named after
region
it was grown in and was called
Pinar del Rio
1941. |
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The Pinar del Rio 1941 became the standard for tobacco
from that region for two decades. Cigars made from the
Pinar del Rio 1941 leaf were noted for their depth and
complexity, as well as superior burning properties.
Though one of the fullest-bodied of Cuban tobaccos, the
Pinar del Rio 1941 had power, but was also smooth and
lacked the bite and harshness on the palate of the
tobacco that would be later grown under the Castro
regime. |
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Photo: Pinar del Rio 1941: newly transplanted seedling |
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In the 1960s, Castro dismantled Cuban Land and other tobacco
research for several years, reassigning the island’s former
tobacco researchers to the cultivation of sugar for Cold War
Russia. This moratorium on Cuban genetic research resulted in
the neglect of tobacco breeding stocks and as a result, these
tobaccos from Cuba’s Golden Age of Cigars eventually
disappeared, including the legendary Pinar del Rio 1941. |
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But that’s not the end of this story. After more than 60 years,
this legendary seed is being grown again in the small
mountainous region of Costa Rica known as Puriscal. The Costa
Rica-based company, Tabacos de la Cordillera, has successfully
grown, harvested, and processed tobacco once again from these
rare and thought to be “extinct” Pinar del Rio 1941 Cuban seeds. |
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"Ancestral Cuban seeds grow the world's finest cigars™" |
Tabacos
de la Cordillera™
Santa Marta de Puriscal
Costa Rica, Central America |
© Copyright Puroserve, S.A., 2005-2009 |
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