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Episode-142-Vogel-Red
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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Vogel Red Torpedo
DESCRIPTION:
The name of these cigars pays tribute to director of
Tabacos de la Cordillera, John Vogel. Vogel is of
the cigar industry’s leading agronomists and tobacco
researchers, and he has dedicated the past 45 years
to the research and development of tobacco.
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the Vogel Red and Green blends, John Vogel is using
tobaccos that have been grown exclusively from
proprietary, genetically pure Cuban seeds that he
acquired during his 20 years as an agricultural
consultant to the tobacco industry. The tobacco for
the Vogel Red was grown from tobacco seeds first
planted near Santiago de Cuba, in 1951. Santiago is
the capital of the Oriente Province in Cuba, and is
an important source of strong and highly aromatic
tobacco, as these cigars demonstrate.
Vogel grows all his tobacco using this pure genetic
stock on a 65-acre farm in the highlands of
Puriscal, Costa Rica. According to Vogel, the
mountainous climate of this Costa Rican Shangri la
has a microclimate closest to Cuba’s growing
conditions.
The Vogel Red is available in five shapes ... a
Robusto, a Corona, a Churchill, a Toro and the cigar
I'm featuring today, a 6" x 52 RG Torpedo.
FEATURED LIBATION: Michter's Small Batch Bourbon
WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING AT STOGIE FRESH:
- Doc talks about the Xikar Havana Collection
cutter, lighter and cigar case available at
FullersPullers.com
- Blake reviewed the Vogel Green, counterpart to
today's featured cigar, this past week. You'll find
the review in the Cigar Review Directory.
- Doc's shopping spree at BevMo yields some great
future libations of the week.
- As winter sets in, Doc reflects on the waning BBQ
days of summer.
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