Vintage Smoke

January, 1994

Forget those pre-Castro Havanas that have sold at auctions for $100 apiece. There's a more affordable wave of old tobacco currently hitting the humidors of connoisseurs. Known as vintage cigars, these specially selected smokes hail from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Jamaica, three countries similar to Cuba in climate. Just as wine has good and bad years, the tobacco in these hand-rolled cigars is the best the world has seen in decades. Aged in cedar vaults for three months to about a year...