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Just got back from Rocky's in Honduras

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roscoe

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I just got back Saturday from a tour of Rocky's place in Honduras. We visited every facet of the growing and manufacturing of cigars. It was truely an incredible experience.

Here are some of the raw pics. Give me some time and I'll have them up on our website.

We stayed at a villa supplied by Rocky http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA250010.JPG

Here's some tobacco fermenting http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA250017.JPG

Here's some tobacco that just came in and is going to be fumigated http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA250020.JPG
http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA250024.JPG

Here's one of the sorting rooms http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA250029.JPG

Here's where they sort the wrapper. In natural sunlight http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA250037.JPG

Couple of armed guards at the gate. Saw lots of these http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA250040.JPG

The rolling room http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA260041.JPG

Checking ring size prior to wrapping http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA260049.JPG

Quality control. You will notice that in some bundles the cigars are turned around. These are the rejects. Each bundle has a tag identifing the roller. http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA260055.JPG

Packing the boxes. They even put the bands and cellophane on by hand http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA260057.JPG

Rolling some nice maduros http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA260060.JPG

Box making http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA260076.JPG
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The drying room http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA270090.JPG
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Sewing fresh leaves one by one http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA270092.JPG

The fields http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA270094.JPG


Got tons more pics but you will get an idea. Each cigar you smoke has been touched over one hundred times by different people.

Roscoe
http://www.metrocigar.com
 
Great pictures and information, really interesting. Thanks! :thumbs:
 
Thanks for sharing the pics roscoe, they look great.

I do have a question about this one though...
You say she is rolling a maduro, but it looks like she is putting something on the leaf to make it darker.
Can you elaborate?
 
That cute little chickita rolling the maduro has juice on her hands. I was told that the maduro wrapper is much more fragile than the standard wrappers. You see she is using a flat piece of metal to lay the leaf on and she uses water make it stick. The water mixing with the tobacco creates a dark juice that was all over her fingers. None maduro rolling took place on a piece of smooth wood.

Here is a shot of a regular roller. She is cute too but she had a mustache.
http://www.metrocigar.com/honduras/PA260065.JPG

Roscoe
http://www.metrocigar.com
 
Made this trip in January, it truly is an experience.
Lots of information and a whole lot of partying at night.
Rocky and his gang truly know how to entertain their guests.

So did you get to blend your own cigar?
If so how did it turn out?
 
We only brought back about a dozen or so. We did get to blend our own and they came out great. We will be able to order them by the box with our own custom bands.

Yeah! Rocky knows how to party. Thursday night we had a band out by the pool and, all of a sudden, a whole bunch of senoritas showed up. We danced into the night, drinking rum and smokin great cigars. Funny though, once the chickitas showed up all the cameras were put away.....

Roscoe
http://www.metrocigar.com
 
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