It is stipulated that 90% of the tobacco leaves must be sold to the government in accordance with the law after being picked and dried and packed in a one-meter square package, and 10% of the cigars are rolled in state-owned factories, but the benefits of rolling the cigars themselves are much greater.

Many private cigar estates roll their own cigars for sale, and strictly speaking, cigars cannot be sold directly on the estate, including labeled or unlabeled. Therefore, many cigar estates sell cigars not in the manor, but in the room next to the manor, where the cigars under the table are traded.

Not only can you buy cigars rolled by the estates themselves without cigarette labels, but some estates can also buy bulk cigars with cigarette labels, such as bulk Cohiba and bulk Beicho, everything is available, and it is very enjoyable to pack.

Turning around, there is a sense of sight in West Lake to buy tea. Many estates will boast that they are Cohiba's tobacco suppliers and offer the exact same cigars.

Some of them are true, some are lies, and the estates that supply tobacco to Cohiba are only in the double digits, but they are not unique. As Cohiba's production and product lines expanded, so did the number of people it could purchase, and no single estate could have all the tobacco varieties needed in a certain collection of Cohiba.

After looking at the manor, not far away is a state-owned factory, thousands of large and small before the revolution, after the establishment of the new regime, many brands fled, and the factory could not be taken away. After nationalization, it was integrated into the Eight King Kongs and monopolized the market.

This is the Cuban cigar factory, although it has been relocated, renewed, and rebuilt, but the style still retains a strong colonial atmosphere, and it feels like a state-owned enterprise factory in the late 80s in China.

The tan tobacco leaves that can be seen everywhere are in harmony with the dark-skinned workers, and the smell of wisps of cigar tobacco comes to the face in the busy atmosphere. There is a gray hue all around, and many windows have partitions to block some of the sunlight. Most of the workbenches have a long history, with tobacco leaves piled on the countertops and crushed tobacco leaves on the floor. The ceiling fans and vertical fans in the factory look old.

The top layer is for cigar rolling, the second layer is for sorting tobacco leaves, destemming and sorting tobacco leaves, etc., and the first layer is where cigars are packed and packed. There is no air conditioning inside the factory, and it is extremely humid and muggy in the summer.

Cigars are often seen as expensive and extravagant, but SC Johnson doesn't feel any tall and tall in front of the factory, and the tiles on the floor are very old, and in some places you can see peeling off the walls.

The workers dressed very casually, there was no mandatory uniform clothing, and many wore vest slippers, or even just rolled one up and pulled it up directly.

It may be that making a traditional handmade cigar doesn't require a spotless environment and a clean table top like a Swiss mechanical watch. It is precisely the scratched workbenches, the gray beams, the mottled walls, and the untidy workers in those factories that make the most primitive cigars in South America.

It is this kind of factory that produces world-famous and excellent cigars, and generations of cigar workers rely on their hands, leaf by leaf roll, and knife cut, to produce cigars with different characteristics, which are transported to all over the world, and finally dispersed in the hands of cigar customers.

I heard that the highlight of this year's cigar festival is the dinner auction on the last day, but just two days before the dinner, the guests attending the cigar festival have already arrived in Havana, and the dinner lot has not yet been determined?

In the past few years, many cigar factories have group tours, in fact, the internal staff of the cigar factory organizes tour groups to visit the cigar factory and earn some pocket money. At first, there were almost no specifications and no detailed processes, and when you visited, you could move the cigars rolled by workers at will, and even turn it into a large-scale tasting party.

There was once a joke about Cuban cigars, if a Cuban cigar factory finds a forgotten tobacco leaf in a warehouse, make it into a limited edition cigar!

There were three kinds of tobacco leaves next to the worker, and the guide told SC Johnson that the closest thing to hand was the main ingredient of the tobacco fillinghouse, which was placed in the innermost layer of the cigar. The furthest from the worker's hand is the outermost layer of the cigar, while the tobacco leaf in the middle is the bundle of tobacco that holds the filler in place.

In order to allow people to enjoy cigars with a gap for smoke to pass through, the cigar filler is manually torn into two pieces vertically, and then the filler is made, which is also the characteristic of handmade cigars.

I saw the cigarette workers devote themselves wholeheartedly, dancing their hands, delicately tearing the tobacco leaves, skillfully wrapping them, and finishing them just right. The taste of a cigar is mainly determined by the filler, and the taste of each cigar depends on the craftsmanship of the cigarette maker.

Cigars are rolled with tobacco leaves in different positions, filler Tripa is the filler leaf used to make the small tobacco leaf of the filler, the binder is Capote, the bundle leaf, which is used to protect the filler leaf, and Capa is the wrapper, which is the wrapper leaf, which is the wrapper leaf and the outer curl leaf.

After the final cigarette is smoked, it is inspected by a professional machine in the cigar factory to determine whether the cigar is up to standard. After reaching the standard, the cigar is then tasted by different tasters, and after passing these two tests, it can be encapsulated and then sold.

Propaganda posters hang on the walls, and a portrait of Castro and his comrade-in-arms Che Guevara smoking a cigar is in front of him. The bearded old man held a thick cigar in his hand and thought about it, while Guevara took it in his mouth and pondered.

After visiting the cigarette room, we went to the basement, where there are several closed glass doors in the aisles, all of which are cigar storage rooms, each with a collection of cigars from different years.

Cigars can only be visited through glass doors, and the cigars are fermented twice, the tobacco leaves are picked, dried, sorted and leveled, and then the first fermentation is undertaken, and then the fermented tobacco leaves are hand-rolled into cigars and then placed in the storage room for a second fermentation.

A good cigar is like a fine wine, it needs to be fermented at a fixed humidity and temperature, and the longer the fermentation, the better the taste.

Most of the cigars sold in the VIP room are single loose cigars, which are displayed in cedar boxes, which are said to have a woody aroma. There are about 20 cigars in different price ranges throughout the showroom, all priced in US dollars, ranging from $50 to $500.

Although the price is attractive, for foreigners, it is not possible to buy more, because there is a maximum limit for Cuban cigars. You can only bring a maximum of two boxes per person when leaving the country, and no more than 50 sticks in bulk.

The most expensive box costs 15,000 euros, almost 150,000 yuan, 40 20 cm Behike cigars, made by the most experienced chief technician Norma, and made from 7 to 9 years old tobacco leaves. SC Johnson doesn't smoke, so he can pack some and give it to a few fox friends to try.

Leaving the manor, Vi?? There are many caves in the mountains of Ales, and during the Cretaceous period, hundreds of millions of years ago, underground rivers eroded limestone beds to create huge caves.

Located in the surrounding mountains, the waterfall in front of the cave is clear, and the ancient trees are towering to the sky. Before entering the cave, several people dressed as indigenous people are there to perform their primitive life.

It is said to be a rock cave, only to find out after entering the cave, it is actually a karst cave, the narrow and damp cave is full of strange stones, and the stalactites are peculiar. There is a dark river in the depths of the cave, and you can take a boat through the dark river, and drive out of the cave mouth in the mountains, and after sailing out, it is an idyllic scenery.

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