Macanudo Café is the cigar that made us an icon with remarkable flavor and consistency for a mellow cigar ideal for everyone. Macanudo Café has spent decades as one of, if not the best-selling premium cigars of all time. Café is distinctive, smooth and delicious to smoke, garnering numerous 90+ ratings by industry reviews. Individually handcrafted from an aromatic and flavorful blend, Macanudo cigars are mellow, distinctively smooth and easy to smoke. If you are looking for the quintessential classic mild to medium Macanudo, you can't go wrong with the ever-popular Cafe blend. Introduced in 1968, the legendary brand is currently offered in 19 shapes, all of which share the same mild blend of Dominican and Mexican longfillers shrouded in a flawless, U.S. Connecticut shade wrapper leaf. After aging for up to two years in Royal Palm bark bales (tercios), the filler tobaccos are matured even longer in Dominican rum barrels. Before the binder and wrapper are applied, the fillers are rolled using the age-old Cuban entubar rolling method. This means that each Macanudo Café filler leaf is rolled individually creating a core that is actually a series of tubes. It's takes longer to roll the cigars this way, and is more costly, but the result is a cigar with a much better draw and richer flavor. General Cigar originally made Macanudo in Jamaica, but due to the adverse conditions moved production to the Dominican Republic, where it remains to this day. Combining a Connecticut Shade wrapper, Dominican fillers, and a unique binder grown in the San Andrés Valley of Mexico, the Macanudo is fairly straightforward and light in flavor with a very short finish. The early puffs of the Macanudo Café cigars I've smoked are mild and creamy with flavors of sweet spice and cedar, plus that marvelous aroma hits you immediately. Even the retrohale is smooth and free of any bitterness or peppery spice. As for the base flavors, which consist mostly of cedar, nutmeg and other sweet spices, they don't change all that much during the experience. However, that's also what makes Macanudo Café cigars so consistent. Master Blender Tasting Notes: "Full of rich and creamy tobacco, this blend offers plenty of earthiness and nutty notes as well."