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Carlos Torano - Dominico in Churchill Cigar Review

Carlos Torano Cigars - The Dominico is a bundle cigar that is inexpensive and enjoyable. The Churchill is a great vitola to this bundle, because of its mild flavors and strength the size will give you a good smoke time to enjoy. Pre-light notes: nice oils and sweet aroma. Nice bunching and good construction with a nice draw. The pre-light draw was a sour lime note that I really like. First: Loads of smoke off the foot and draw. Giving notes of earth, hay and lots of wood and some leather. Sour apple and black cherry came quickly and went just as fast. I had some white pepper notes on the retro hale, but still smooth. The burn and ash was fantastic right from the light. Second: The pepper started to pick up more at his time on the retro-hale. Nice earth and leather notes with that sour note still hanging on throughout. Some cedar wood type notes came and went. I also encountered some floral and graham notes, with a hint of bread. Third: The pepper would come and go. I had some salt and almond flavor. Wood and earth still continues and amps up as I get near the end. Final Thoughts: Great flavors, very mellow - smoked and burned like a champ! A decent every day smoke; where you smoke it for the enjoyment of smoking, and not for the massive flavor bang. Great to have while attending to the yard work. Or, even just to puff on something while having drinks, without the worry of masking flavors with what your drinking. History: Grandfather, Santiago Torano emigrated to Cuba from Spain and started his own company called Torano & Co. in 1916. He was an acting middle man for the buying and selling of tobacco. (buy low, sell high) Four years latter he brought his three brothers over to help work in the business. After a while the brother felt that it was time for them to have a business of their own. So they split the company into four and the three brothers went their own way and started buying up farms in the 1930`s. Santiago had four sons and one of which was named Carlos Torano (Sr.) Santiago`s sons had their own farms in other regions of Cuba. Life was good until Batista was run out of power. When the revolution took over and nationalized the tobacco and sugar industry - the Torano family (like many others) fled Cuba. They sped to other countries like Spain, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Mexico and Dominican Republic. Carlos Torano Sr. had settled in the Dominican and in the 60`s - 70`s the Candela wrapper was all the rage. One night Carlos went to go check on the workers who were looking after the fires that burned in the color curing barns (a.k.a Casas) - he suffered a heart-attack at the sight of his workers sleeping on the job. Sadly he passed away while being transported to town to see the doctor. The Torano family combined their efforts once again to become close to one another and run the business together as one entity. The Toranos became ASP Enterprise (they ran the controlling intrest of the farms) and Central America Tobacco (who were the broker) And it was around this point that Carlos Torano Jr. became part of the company. So in the early 90`s, they became aware of the rapidly, ever-changing pace of technology. So they made an executive decision to remove themselves as the middleman, and focus on manufacturing their own brand of cigars. And what was also appearing at this time... the cigar boom! So the company changed again and the Torano Dominican Cigar company was created. They had also started to make cigars for other brands. Eventually purchasing a factory in Honduras, their numbers grew to 18 million cigars per year. However, the following year they fell to around 2 million. (through out the 1997-1998 period) They needed some help, and found it from a gentleman by the name on Fidel Oliva (not part of the Oliva cigar family) He helped them to reinvent their brand and even drop the ones they had picked up. Now the Carlos Torano cigar brand is bigger than ever - even picking up other brands along the way. Like CAO, 5 Vegas, Alec Bradley and Gurkha. In 2005 Carlos Torano Jr. became the president of Torano Cigars and the Central America Tobacco companies. Thanks for watching, and I hope you have a chance to try one. JJ