Forged Cigar Co. has announced its second new release for La Gloria Cubana: Medio Tiempo.
The new La Gloria Cubana Medio Tiempo is a regular production line that uses an Ecuadorian sumatran wrapper over a Connecticut broadleaf binder and filler tobaccos from four different areas: the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Connecticut. The Connecticut tobacco is the one where the cigar gets its name from, it’s a Connecticut habano varietal that is classified as medio tiempo.
Medio tiempo is a priming of tobacco the way a plant is divided into sections vertically that is found above the ligero priming, typically the highest priming. It’s only found on certain plans and only some growers go through the effort of classifying it separately from ligero. Given its position on the plant, medio tiempo should be the strongest tobacco found on the plants where it grows. In recent years, a variety of manufacturers have marketed their cigars as explicitly containing medio tiempo tobacc
Under normal circumstances this time of year would be firmly marked in the calendars of cigar aficionados across the globe.
Since 1999 the last week of February has seen Havana host the annual Habanos festival, a celebration of Cuba’s most famous export and a chance for distributors, journalists and keen collectors to descend on the spiritual home of cigars to find out what new releases are planned for the year ahead.
As with so many other large gatherings, the 2021 edition has been scrapped, leaving those of us with an interest in the traditional announcements in a bit of confusion.
The festival has not been the only aspect of the cigar industry to be affected by the events of the last 12 months.
Red Bulls Round-Up: January 2, 2021
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