Yagua is a full-bodied cigar that delivers a complex smoking experience with notes of dark fruit, chocolate, peanut butter, barnyard, pepper, and spice, offering a medium-full strength profile at an accessible price point. The flavor profile features musky barnyard, chocolatey peanut butter, dark fruit, mocha, earth, red pepper, cedar notes, and characteristics of rain-soaked earth, pepper, oak, sweet molasses, and chocolate.
This unique cigar recreates a 1940s Cuban tradition where Lazaro Lopez's grandfather would roll cigars without molds or presses, then tie them together using pieces of the Cuban royal palm tree (yagua) to give shape, resulting in each cigar having its own unique form. Made with an under-fermented Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper and aged for a full year after rolling, the cigars are crafted at the J.C. Newman PENSA factory in Estelí, Nicaragua using Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos.
The cigar has developed a cult-like following among enthusiasts who appreciate its nostalgic, authentic aura and the history wrapped up in each uniquely shaped stick. Each box contains 20 cigars that are bound together while still wet using a Yagua palmiche palm leaf, with the bundle still wrapped in the palm leaf when packaged.