Arganese Factory Tour

Turk10mm

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Well, I've finally recovered from my trip to the Domincan Republic, hosted by Arganese Cigars. I must say that it was an amazing experience and truley educates you in what it REALLY takes to make a good cigar. Gene was an excellent host. His house in the DR is amazing and his DR right hand man Cristobal is fantastic. We had a chef while we were there, open bar, and days full of excursions to the fields, processing plant, cigar factory, box factory etc.

Gene makes a great cigar, and wait till you get to smoke the CL3 and ML3 cigars that are coming out this summer. They were amazingly good smokes. Everything is grown in a Cuban style in the DC. We learned how the DR does it typically and then were shown the differences between the styles. Gene's tobacco is first generation cuban seed, which is interesting. Basically, he's reproduced the cuban style of growing and processing tobacco and imported it into the dominican republic.

Alas, here are the pictures .

http://turk10mm.smugmug.com/gallery/4286165#251341020

I hope you enjoy!
 
Wow, it that your home :laugh: !!!! Those are great pics, it looks like you guys had a great time!
 
Thanks for sharing, looks like a well run operation.
 
Very nice Turk! Finally gave me the right reason to dig into these Arganese that I have had resting in the cooler. I suppose I will truely appreciate them more now being able to put some history behind them...

Awsome!

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