DOMINICAN CIGARS - PUROS DOMINICANOS

                                                 Like cigarettes, cigars are a health risk.

They are generally considered as a viable alternative to cigarettes because their smoke should not be inhaled, how often are smoked is less and also because they lack the toxic components of the ignition of the paper, thus reducing the risk of contracting lung cancer.
But smoking cigars or pipes, remains the risk of oral cancer, due to the fact to hold the smoke in your mouth.
Someone made the comparison between those who smoke cigarettes and those who smoke cigars, as an alcoholic and a sommelier!
In 1962, when he began the US embargo, Cuba lost its main market, so the largest manufacturers of Cuban cigars, have tried other areas and many have settled in Dominican Rep, where they found the climate and lands most suitable.

The main quality of a good cigar, are:
taste, smell, color, combustibility, texture, elasticity, balance between nicotine and oils.
The Dominican cigars have all of these features!

                                                                           

 

                                      Are three types of tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic:

OLOR DOMINICANO Dominican origin, used for models softer

PILOTO CUBAN originates from the seeds of Cuban Vuelta Abajo and is the richest and
harder

SAN WINNING even this source Cubana, is a hybrid, full flavor, derived from Piloto.

Garcia Tobacco, La Romana (located on the south coast of the Dominican Rep, 260 km. South of Las Galeras and 127 km.a east of Santo Domingo), is the largest manufacturer of handmade cigars, the world .


We produce famous brands like Montecristo, H. Upmann, Romeo y Julieta, SANTA DAMIANA and DON.

Diego Tabadom Holding, in Santiago (Dominican Rep second city, 147 km. North-west of Santo Domingo and 220 km. West of Las Galeras), is another important Dominican company that produces the famous DAVIDOFF and AVO Y GRIFFIN'S.

The cigar is an object particularly delicate and takes only a few hours of improper storage for compromising, its full use, for this reason, the type of packaging is very important.

TUBE:
May be aluminum or plastic and usually contains a single cigar. It guarantees the preservation for long periods and can be reused at will. Inside the tube is often used in the sliced thin cedar to maintain the level of humidity.

CARTON PACKAGE:
The cardboard packaging ("petaca") is three or five pieces, does not guarantee the seal moisture and will eventually affect the taste of the cigars. E 'to be considered the worst type of packaging, even though it is also used for quality cigars (eg. Cohiba, Partagas, Montecristo).

THE BOX:
It is wooden boxes, which ensure a good seal of humidity on the short term, but in any case need to be in protected environment when stored for a long time, however the box-shaped rectangular, box, tends to "crush". For this reason it is increasingly common packaging in boxes called cabinet, in which, however, are kept loose and not trapped, wrapped in a simple headband to hold together but without him lose its original shape

               For those wishing to explore the world of cigars there is a site that I consider very useful:
                                 Los Puros Dominicanos www.lacasadelpurodominicano.eu/

                                    Some excellent brands of Dominican cigars:

Adán y Eva, Arturo Fuente, Ashton, Aurora Preferidos, Avo, Bolívar, Canaria D'Oro, Casablanca, Chubbys, Dominican Cohiba, Cubita, Cuesta-Rey, Davidoff, Delicioso, Diamond Crown, Dominique, Don Diego, Don Sebastián, Dunhill Emilio Reyes, Griffin's, Gurkha, H. Upmann, Hemingway, Fonseca, José Benito, JR Tobacco, Juan Clemente, La Aurora, La Flor Dominicana, La Habanera, La Primera, La única, Licenciados, Los Libertadores, Macanudo, Montecristo, Montecruz, Montesino, Names, OpusX, Padrón, Partagas, Paul Garmirian, Primo del Rey, Ramón Allones, Ricos Dominicanos, Romeo y Julieta, Royal Dominican, Santa Damiana, Seijas Signature, Sosa, Troya, Zino Platinum and 858.

THE THREE CARAVELLE

n.141 cm.101x125

semi-gloss su tela

Cristoforo Colombo, in 1492, with the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, after reaching Cuba, he continued his journey to discover the New World, Martín Alonso Pinzón, captain of the Pinta and second in command of the fleet.

The latter, he had heard from the natives of the immense wealth of the island of Babeque (In pre-colonial era, the island Babeque, or Quisqueya, the mother of all lands, later renamed Hispaniola), and after a few attempts with Columbus decided to carry out research without permission.

The fact is that for about two months, the fleet was reduced to only two caravels, with which it was explored the northern coast of Haiti.

They arrived in the bay so that Columbus called "Bahia de los Mosquitos" and there was talk of an island shaped like a turtle that the browser called "Tortuga".

Always believe that you are in Asia, Colombo confused the indigenous word Cibao (Cibao This is, at present, the region north of the Dominican Republic), with rich Cipango, or Japan, in search of which immediately began traveling beyond Cape Haiti .

On the night of December 25, the Santa Maria ran aground on a coral reef and was abandoned.

The admiral, left with only one caravel, had to leave part of the crew (39 people) with the promise that he would return to take them back on his second voyage across the ocean. He then build a fort - La Navidad far from the scene of the accident.

Then the Indians said they had seen "another house on the water" (Pinta), but to no avail the message that Columbus tried to send. On January 4, we tried again to get in touch while 5 fleet gathered near Monte Christi.

Before returning decided to take both ships aground on Cape Samana for restoration work.

  On January 13, they were attacked by a hostile tribe which Columbus thought they were the dreaded Caribs (cannibals). In the clashes there were only a few injuries but anyway Columbus decided to leave as soon as possible at the dawn of January 16, 1493.