https://cigarandcedar.com/ The latest the leaf stories from Cigar & Cedar. en https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/cibao-valley-dominican-tobacco/ https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/cibao-valley-dominican-tobacco/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In the valley around Santiago, the Dominican Republic grows the mild, elegant leaf that defines its cigars. https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/honduras-quiet-power/ https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/honduras-quiet-power/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 The Jamastrán Valley rolls a huge share of the world's cigars and asks for none of the credit. https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/cameroon-wrapper-africa-leaf/ https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/cameroon-wrapper-africa-leaf/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 From a rainforest on the Cameroon border comes what the Meerapfel family describes as the most expensive wrapper leaf in the industry. https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/ecuador-cloud-grown-leaf/ https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/ecuador-cloud-grown-leaf/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 On the equator, the clouds do the work that shade cloth does elsewhere, and the wrapper industry noticed. https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/pinar-del-rio-vuelta-abajo/ https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/pinar-del-rio-vuelta-abajo/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In Cuba's far west, a forty-thousand-hectare district grows the tobacco every other region is measured against. https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/esteli-after-the-boom/ https://cigarandcedar.com/leaf/esteli-after-the-boom/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Nicaragua's northern highlands survived revolution, expropriation, and embargo to become the handmade cigar's capital.