JRE Tobacco’s Julio R. Eiroa is a cigar industry legend who’s famous for cultivating some of the best corojo-seed tobacco (JRE calls it “Authentic Corojo”) to be had outside Cuba. Of course, the last six decades have helped Cuban-born Eiroa improve on what he came up with in the early 1960s, but Eiroa’s primary occupation as a farmer is what taught him that he could take almost any production crop in existence and improve on it.
In the early 2000s, Eiroa was buying Cameroonian tobacco from the Meerapfel family in West-Central Africa to use in wrappers for cigars he was producing. But it was in Eiroa’s nature to think that he could upgrade what the Meerapfels were providing by taking Cameroonian seeds and planting them on his own farms in Honduras’ Jamastran Valley.
Indeed, that’s just what Eiroa did, and by the time he started JRE, he had nearly perfected his Cameroon-seed tobacco, which was arguably as good or better than anything the Meerapfels were turning out.
Take this tobacco for wrappers and Eiroa’s Authentic Corojo-seed tobacco for binders and fillers, and you get a wondrous puro Honduran line of cigars that JRE calls Aladino Cameroon.
This vitola of the line, the Queens Perfecto, features a cinnamon-colored wrapper, a tapered foot, and copious output of smooth, elegant smoke. Medium-bodied, with medium strength, this smoke yields flavors of leather, dry cedar, hot chocolate with whipped cream, baking spices, graham crackers, and salty peanuts, along with traces of red pepper.
Available in boxes of 20, the Aladino Cameroon Queens Perfecto is a cigar worth seeking out that provides a delightful, delectable one-hour smoke. Pick up a box today, and experience the cigar-making artistry of Julio Eiroa.