A few weeks ago on The Cigar Authority podcast we reported on a new trademark filed by the parent company of Altadis USA. This week some details emerged about Yueguera thanks to Cigar Insider.
The name isn’t a new cigar, but rather a new proprietary Honduran tobacco that should appear in cigars in the first quarter of 2016. The tobacco is named after an estate in the Northeast part of Honduras which is mountainous.
According to Altadis, the new tobacco is a hybrid between Criollo ’98 and a Cuban seed that was brought over to Honduras in the 1960s. The process to create the new Yaguera tobacco took six-years and the company believes they been able to capture the sweetness of the Cuban seed and the stronger properties of the Criollo ’98.
How the company plans to use the tobacco has yet to be decided.
