This 6x52 Toro is the latest iteration of General Cigar's rainforest experiment, packing Amazonian Bragança tobacco in a cedar-aged parejo format. The box-pressed stick ships 18 per box with that signature jungle vine band, its Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper hiding Nicaraguan binder leaves and tri-country fillers. At medium-full strength, it's like smoking a biodiversity report - in the best possible way.
The 2025 edition's Brazilian Bragança filler gets company from Dominican and Colombian leaves, all wrapped in an Ecuadorian Sumatra capa. What really sets it apart is the añejamiento process - six months in Spanish cedar-lined rooms gives that signature sweetwood undertone. The Nicaraguan binder holds together this UN biodiversity pact of tobaccos.
Originally debuting in 2014 as CAO's answer to "what if cigars had terroir?", these continue to use tobacco grown in cleared rainforest plots that would otherwise become cattle pastures. The Bragança varietal only thrives under specific canopy conditions, making each harvest as predictable as Amazon rainfall patterns.
