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| Introducing Lucido
Cigars... |
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The search started about 5
years ago when smoking Cuban Cigars with a friend in Tokyo’s prestigious cigar
bar …yes we used to pay 20,000 yen per head... At some point you
just don’t notice it…the money goes in smoke. Fine! I love Tokyo! Really, the
thoughts were lucid-clear…where do we find
good smoke… for next to nothing? It took some time, research; (talking to people who produce the best cigars
in various regions…Nicaragua, The
Dominican Republic etc…) and a lot of smoke…we call it
research too! We found the
smoke! ...same quality (or better) then for what we
used to pay big Yen…
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We
only buy our
hand made
cigars
from
recognized factories… that explains the quality of the smoke, so you can rest
easy concerning quality.
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| The Non Cuban cigars... |
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Cuba
- historically the premier cigar manufacturing country has seen not only
drop in the quality of her cigars but also serious stock shortages.
Nicaragua, The
Dominican Republic
and other countries in and around the Caribbean, have not only improved the
quality but also created new blends, which are often superior to many well
known Cuban brands.
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The Dominican Republic
Situated to the south-east of Cuba, the Dominican Republic is steeped in the traditions of handmade cigar making. The ideal combination of climate and soil, together with the experience of master cigar makers, deliver all that connoisseurs regard as outstanding in premium
cigars. Generally
mild to medium-bodied.
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Honduras
Honduras has become one of the main suppliers of fine handmade cigars and continues to increase in
popularity. Mostly
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Brazil
Inland from Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia, Cuban immigrants have found fertile ground for premium cigars and wrapper production. The region's unique climate allows for two cuts on each planting of tobacco, making Brazilian yields higher than average. Cuban seed tobacco - Sumatra and Bahia, a sweet, big leaf tobacco excellent for use as long filler. |
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Nicaragua
Well-made
cigars back on the market after political changes in 1990. The cigars draw well with a medium
flavor and a peppery aftertaste.
Mostly
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"A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a
motion picture."
-- Samuel Fuller, Movie Director parodying Kipling
"My boy! Smoking is one of the
greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to
smoke, I can only feel sorry for you."
-- Sigmund Freud - to
his young nephew, Harry, after he declined a cigar
"What this country needs is a good 5-cent
cigar."
-- Thomas Marshall, Vice President as said in the Senate in 1919
"Eating and sleeping are the
only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his
cigar."
-- Mark Twain
"Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden
rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
"Lady Bracknell: Do you
smoke?
Earnest: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.
Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation
of some kind."
-- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being
Earnest
"In the future all men will be able to smoke
Havanas."
-- Herr Doktor Schutte, an early Marxist
"If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not
go."
-- Mark Twain
"Given the choice between a woman and a cigar,
I will always choose the cigar."
-- Groucho Marx
"A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the
vulgarities of the world."
-- Franz Liszt, Composer
"They had no good cigars there, my lord; and I
left the place in disgust."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson, returning from Venice"
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I
smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchil
"I ordinarily smoke
fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the
enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no
intervals."
-- Mark Twain
"Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as
protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great
intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my
self-control."
-- Sigmund Freud
"If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit
smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his
funeral."
-- George Burns
"The only way to break a bad habit was to
replace it with a better habit."
-- Jack Nicholson, explaining why he switched from cigarettes to
cigars
"I started smoking these little Italian cigars just so
there was some of that smell in the air."
-- Francis Ford Coppola
"There is nothing more
agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar
butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting
like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall."
-- Fidel Castro
