Cigar Advisor Publishes Article on Cigar Factory Tours
Easton, PA (PRWEB) July 10, 2013 -- The all-new Cigar Advisor is an online cigar magazine that brings a fresh, irreverent, and down-to-earth perspective on all things cigars to thousands of smokers. In addition to educational cigar content and behind-the-scenes cigar industry articles from some of the business’s top names, Cigar Advisor delivers an array of content about a variety of topics of interest to people who enjoy the cigar lifestyle. The magazine also features cigar reviews and ratings submitted by real smokers. Cigar Advisor has just published a new article on the first-hand experience of touring a cigar factory, with advice on how to book your own trip.
Cigar Advisor Editor-at-Large Tommy Zman described himself as a true tobacco neophyte until he toured the floors and the fields of facilities in both Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Walking among the tobacco plants, standing in a drying barn, then getting a first-hand look at the inner factory happenings is something he claims greatly changed his perspective and overall knowledge of his passion.
“So you THINK you know all about cigars?” was the question posed to Tommy in the most smug and brazen of tones. In his article, “Cigar Factory Tours,” he notes that it took a first-hand experience to really gain the knowledge: “you can pour through all the magazines and look at all the pretty pictures online, but until you visit a real honest to goodness cigar factory and stroll through a plantation in some volcanic valley in a Latin American country, it’s true: you are nothing more than a tobacco neophyte.”
Recommending to readers that they put a trip such as this on their bucket list, he says, “Witnessing the first-hand everyday goings on of a real cigar operation will create a paradigm shift like nothing you have experienced in your life.” Zman describes the tasks that cigar factory workers perform on a daily basis; it was his trip that made him realize the hundreds of hands that go into making just one single stick. “When regular folk think of cigar making,” Tommy writes, “They have a single vision of a torcedor applying the wrapper leaf to their favorite stick, but after only a few days on tour you will find out that is only a miniscule percentage of what goes on in a major cigar operation.”
Tommy details several different types of tours put on by cigar manufacturers in the various countries, some as simple as showing up at the factory while vacationing and being shown around the factory for a small fee. He also notes the full scale experiential tours (with Drew Estate, Perdomo, and Rocky Patel), “Where you undergo the full monty of cigar making, including excellent guest accommodations like hotel, local food and drink, and even the chance to create your very own blend.”
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John Pullo, Cigar Advisor Magazine, http://www.cigaradvisor.com, 610-559-7000 159, [email protected]
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