Generoso Eiroa, who spent 70 years working in the tobacco business in just about every major tobacco-producing country, died on Friday. | Cigar Aficionado
VODCast: Tobacco Farming with Justo Eiroa
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe we welcome Justo Eiroa of Aladino Cigars to the show. He’s the brand owner of JRE Tobacco along with his father Julio Eiroa, but the two of them are more than brand owners. They are the Kings of Honduran tobacco and we talk to Justo about everything tobacco from seed to cigar.
In the first hour we light up the Aladino Corojo Reserva Corona No. 4 while in the second our we debut something new from the Aladino Vintage Selection line.
We will have this and all the usual suspects including Versus, Offer of the Day, Cigar News, The email of the week and a peek into the Asylum.
Release Date: Dec. 11, 2020
Number of Cigars Released: Regular Production
Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3
I’ve mentioned this before, but I try not to read anything about the cigars I’m reviewing until after I’m done smoking the cigars. Given that Patrick wrote the news story about this cigar and Brooks went to Blue Smoke to buy them, I hadn’t seen one until I pulled it out of my review box. The first thing I noticed was that this is close, but not the proper 7 7/16 (192mm) x 38 lancero; instead, it’s the more common 7-inch version we see from non-Cuban manufacturers. The second thing I noticed was that the bands were placed very high up on the cigar. Like I had witnessed when I saw this wrapper three years ago, it’s a lot cleaner than the typical Cameroon wrapper. It lacks the spotting and much of the visual features that can lead to some people calling African Cameroon wrapper “ugly.” That being said, the aroma from the wrapper is a mixture of leather, cara