This past December, Nicaragua held its first-ever cigar festival, Festival del Tabaco 2009, also called Sabor y Aroma de Nicaragua. Nicaragua’s tobacco growing regions have successfully yielded top-quality leaf, giving birth in recent years to a mini-industry of all-Nicaraguan tobacco cigars – true puros in the tradition of Cuba.
This video gives a glimpse at the hand-rolling process.
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