Aged for a minimum of seven years, each Aganorsa Leaf Signature Selection cigar utilizes the finest vintage tobaccos to create a buttery smooth full-bodied experience. Our finest expression of our famed Aganorsa Leaf, this Nicaraguan puro contains rare medio tiempo in the filler. Both full bodied, and exceptionally smooth, the lighter wrapped variety offers luscious notes of roasted nuts, toasted bread, earth, and leather, while both blends are backed by the signature spicy sweetness that these prized Aganorsa leaves are famous for. Aganorsa Leaf Signature Selection is blended by Max Fernández, son of company owner Eduardo Antonio Fernández Pujals. The project is designed to reflect the upper tier of the updated Aganorsa Leaf portfolio, showcasing a puro blend grown exclusively on the Fernández family's Nicaraguan farms. Adding to the intrigue, the blend makes use of a small amount (half a leaf) of medio tiempo tobacco in the filler. Medio tiempo, harvested from the top of the tobacco plant (above ligero), is a rare priming that is found on a small percentage of crops; for Aganorsa, only 50 to 80 bales of tobacco out of the annual harvest of 14,000 bales are medio tiempo (around half a percent). Released in small allotments a few times a year, this cigar is as rare as it is special. These are a "regular but limited" production item, with only 500 boxes per size being made for 2018. The Aganorsa Leaf Signature Selection as a very good cigar displaying a very enjoyable level of complexity in its Nicaraguan leaf. It started off as medium-plus before settling into a more medium-bodied groove when the Medio Tiempo tobacco really shone.