Macanudo Maduro Sampler Edition Cigar Review This 6×60 cigar comes in a special retailer only 4 pack sampler with three other Macanudo blends, all in a 6×60 format. It features a coal black, thin firm wrapper with small veins, invisible seams, a nice oil sheen, a double cap and a rich hay and tobacco aroma. First light reveals a perfect draw, medium body flavors of a rich, smooth an oily aged tobacco with a creamy textured finish, putting out plenty of smoke. The first third comes down to a mild-medium, with creamy smooth oily tobacco flavor with a bit of earth and sweetness, holding the same flavors on the long finish. Draw and smoke output is excellent with a good burn, not needing any attention. The 2nd third changes up slightly to a slightly sweet and oily musty chocolate. It’s an interesting combo of flavors, and it’s growing on me. The last third drops the mustiness for a dry light earth flavor, leaving a much heavier, warmer finish. Ending at 1:10 min the stick had excellent construction the whole way through. Thank you to General Cigar for providing this for review! Photography by BGPictures.com Please visit my websites: Cigar Obsession cigarobsession.com My Photography http Don’t forget to comment, rate me a thumbs up and subscribe! Thanks for watching!
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Macanudo Gold Label  Cigars: Processing Tobacco
By John Payne and Patrice Hirschfeld

Why Process Tobacco?

After being harvested and cured, tobacco is not fully stabilized and can not be kept long. It must next be fermented. Fermentation is a complex process, but to make a long story short, one can say that it is a transformation of the chemical components by oxydation.

Fermentation and Aging

Fermentation is a natural transformation of the chemical components that stabilizes the raw material. The process is rather deep and quite fast. When well fermented, a tobacco can be stored for years without damage.

Aging is a slow natural evolution , during which time the tobacco is going to improve its characteristics and to lose its “green” taste. Once blended in a cigar, the tobacco deserves a new period of aging in order to reach a good balance between the blend components.

Why Ferment Tobacco?

Beyond stabilization and storage capability, fermentation makes the tobacco lose its raw and green taste that nobody would really like.

Who can ferment tobacco ?

It is easy to grow a few tobacco plants in your backyard if you like gardening. But if you want to process it for smoking, you’ll have to ferment it. If not, you’ll have some trouble with the taste. To ferment your tobacco properly, you need either large quantities (hundreds of pounds) to build a bulk volume for natural processing, or expensive equipment for artificial fermentation. Our recommandation is to grow petunias (decorative tobacco plants, with a lot of colorful blossoms) and to buy cigars to enjoy your smoke!

How to Ferment Tobacco?

To process a natural fermentation, tobacco is piled up. The weight and the natural moisture content allow the fermentation to start in the middle of the pile. The temperature goes up. When the targeted temperature is reached, the pile is broken and rebuilt, the outside tobacco going inside and vice versa. And that as many times as is necessary, until the whole pile is properly fermented. Some heavy tobaccos can need up to six turnings. It takes months to ferment them correctly.

Fermentation and Rotting

Don’t be afraid when reading that tobacco is fermented! Tobacco is not going to be rotten! Just stabilized and smokeable without giving you nausea. Fermentation considerably improves the original taste.

Fermentation and Quality

Each tobacco has its own fermentation procedure. The main factors that define the process are the texture of the material, and the utilization of the tobacco afterwards. Light wrappers and full bodied fillers are not fermented the same way.

Fermentation and Temperature

Humid tobacco leaves put in a pile are going to start fermenting, giving out heat. The control of the temperature inside the pile is a key factor of success. If the temperature goes too high, the tobacco will be cooked and deteriorate. Each type has its own optimal temperature. When it is reached, the pile has to be opened to stop the heating process and a new pile is built with cooled down tobacco. The outside tobaccos go inside and vice-versa. As an example, a dark air cured tobacco accepts a temperature up to about 130ºF. And disaster can start at 140ºF.

John Payne is the Publisher of Web Marketing Ezine, and the Founder of Enviro-Friendly Products.

Patrice Hirschfeld has spent a lifetime in Tobacco, and is the Proprietor of the Online Cigar Shop- Voila Cigars. John provides Marketing Consultancy to Voila Cigars.

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Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) August 1, 2005

Cigars by Chivas is turning ten, but theyÂ?re not lighting candles on a cake Â? theyÂ?re lighting cigars. To fete this milestone, the Pasadena, California cigar shop and fuming lounge has established a fresh Internet presence at www.cigarsbychivas.com/prweb. Offering more than 90 styles of a dozen high-end cigar brands Â? including Davidoff, Avo, Arturo Fuente, Graycliff, Hoyo de Monterrey, La Aurora, La Gloria Cubana, Macanudo, Montecristo, PG, Punch, Romeo y Julieta and other name brands Â? the online store is a cigar loverÂ?s dream. An array of S.T. Dupont lighters, Atoll accessories, Prometheus and S.T. Dupont cigar cutters, unadulterated Italian crystal Prometheus ashtrays, camp-made humidors and other concentrated items are also accessible. As a value-added service, all orders are transported by 2-day FedEx.

Â?Our advantage is unbeatable service, aggressive prices, an ample selection of eminent quality products, fast transporting, and our comprehensive product knowledge,Â? says Anto Kamarian, owner of Cigars by Chivas. Â?Knowledge is valuable if you cannot share it. With our website we can now share our knowledge of cigars beyond the borders of California.Â?

After a necessitating review process through which several agencies were conversed, Cigars by Chivas selected Clear Pixel Communications Â? a Santa Clarita, California provider of commercializing and management solutions to entrepreneurial organizations Â? to comprehensively redesign the storeÂ?s brand and to evolve the fresh online cigar store. Using the passed on functionality of the Miva Merchant e-commerce platform as a springboard, Clear Pixel created a customized user interface that equilibrated form and function.

Â?Leveraging the strength of the fresh brand image we evolved while blowing up the Miva platform was our goal,Â? says Matthew A. Gilbert, Managing Director of Clear Pixel. Â?The result is a highly functioning e-commerce solution that doesnÂ?t sacrifice on style. The project can be summarized up in one word: fuming!Â?

Cigar lovers can easily voyage directly to the brand for which they are appearing. Or, to expedite their online experience, they can quickly search by brand or style. All better credit cards Â? American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa Â? are accepted over a 128-bit SSL certificate procured by GeoTrust of Needham, Massachusetts.

For ease of use and to further assist their account information, users will create a password assisted account. And, to adapt the incomparable taxation situation in California, an incomparable module was programmed to render abstracted ascertaining and fulfillment for residents of that state

Although Cigars by Chivas is fresh to online commerce, the store celebrates its tenth anniversary in November. Founded in 1995 on the corner of De Lacey Avenue and Green Street in Old Pasadena, California, Cigars by Chivas is today one of the most boffo cigar stores and fuming lounges in the United States.

Among a handful of retailers proffering the accomplished line of Davidoff cigars, one of even fewer trading the concentrated PG brand of Paul Garmirian (with whom Anto is an ad hominem acquaintance), and as the number one S.T. Dupont nominated merchant in the country, Cigars by Chivas provides a virtually incomparable selection. Complementing the selection, the store also offers an asking for, experienced ambience, along with exclusive cigar-related events, giving it the cold balance of selection and setting.

Â?I appear forward to meeting my friends and loosening up with a cigar,Â? says longtime Cigars by Chivas customer and cigar lover Henry Lee. Â?Whether weÂ?re watching a movie or just discoursing localised events, thereÂ?s nothing quite like fuming with your friends after an arduous day. I bask the camaraderie at Cigars by Chivas.Â?

For its predominant visitors, the store also offers a concentrated back room. Complete with classical leather couches, a stereo and flat-panel television, framed in by secret wood cigar lockers, the room is part executive office and part playhouse. The intent, of course, is to further friendship and boost interaction among customers Â? two of KamarianÂ?s motivations for opening up the store

Â?I got palled of all the regulations forestalling me from fuming, so I opened up Cigars by Chivas as a secure haven for myself and other aficionados,Â? Kamarian explains, observing the ad hominem and altruistic impetus for his decision to venture into an industry about which he had previously only had experience as a consumer. Â?Over the past ten years many enduring friendships have evolved over dozens of enthusiastic cigars.Â?

So how does someone with nearly no experience in an industry go so boffo in it? Although the location of the store and the selection of cigars have been better factors, the number one reason is the extraordinary service Cigars by Chivas promises. Kamarian estimates that nearly 90 percent of his sales are made by reiterate customers Â? an arresting statistic in any industry and a testament to his dedication to satisfaction. For Kamarian, Cigars by Chivas is about the experience first and about business second

Â?ItÂ?s a very pleasurable business,Â? Kamarian admits. Â?I bask my days meeting fresh people, having an enthusiastic time with the regulars and fuming close-grained cigars. It is a gross experience and lifestyle for which there is no substitute. A cigar is not just a cigar it is a tool of relaxation, atmosphere and pleasure.Â?

Philanthropically-minded, Kamarian is actively involved with the community in which his business operates. He has gifted to many noncommercial organizations including the Pasadena Police Department, the Pasadena Symphony, the Pasadena Holy Family Church, and Homenetmen Â? an Armenian youth group. Cigars by Chivas recently patronized and organised a golf tournament to benefit PasadenaÂ?s Huntington Hospital Â? a 525-bed community hospital proffering an afloat complement of perceptive medical care and community services.

In an additional gesture of generosity Kamarian helped Arbi Babaei pay for his MBA program at BurbankÂ?s Woodbury University. At the time, Babaei was the storeÂ?s universal manager Â? a position that gave complemented his scholarly experience with hands-on experience in a tangible business environment

Â?Working with Anto was a great way to apply the information I learned in my MBA program,Â? said Babaei, who recently bought Cozy Toes Nail Spa in Sherman Oaks, California. Â?His entrepreneurial spirit and grok business sense are skills you just canÂ?t larn from a book.Â?

Admirably, Kamarian doesnÂ?t give for the recognition Â? itÂ?s just what he is all about

Â?Giving back to my community is an important component to the Cigars by Chivas philosophy,Â? Kamarian explains. Â?I owe my success to the people who visit my store and supporting local causes is my way of giving thanks to those who have supported my business.Â?

Stop by the online store today at www.cigarsbychivas.com/prweb and purchase a box of Davidoff, Avo, Arturo Fuente, Graycliff, Hoyo de Monterrey, La Aurora, La Gloria Cubana, Macanudo, Montecristo, PG, Punch, Romeo y Julieta or another known cigar brand Â? and fete the 10th birthday of Cigars by Chivas in style!

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Lighting and smoking a Macanudo 1968, shirtless, in my car

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