CAO ITALIA CIGARS

Widely heralded as the producer of some of the worlds finest wines, olive oils, and truffles, Italy has been largely overlooked as a source for premium cigar tobacco. Historically, there has been a big type of tobacco seeds that thrive in Italy: the Geudertheimer seed, that is grown and used primarily for machine made cigars.

However, the seed grown for CAO Italia is an Italian Habano seed originally brought to Italy from Cuba some forty-plus years ago. This seed is grown in the Benevento region of the southern portion of Italy, located between Rome and Naples. This Italian Habano seed filler is complimented by filler tobaccos from Nicaragua and Peru, and finished with a Habano seed Honduran-grown wrapper and binder. The blend of this exquisite Italian tobacco lends to a very unique earthy-sweetness to the smoke, one that rounds out the robust, full-bodied flavor profile that is CAO Italia.