Interesting quotes found online about J. Fuego. I bolded the parts i found most interesting.
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar...47,206,00.html
"Back in Arizona, he calls his right-hand man in Honduras, Jesus Fuego, saying that he wants him to reject any cigar that blisters as it burns. He's obsessed with longer fermentation and aging, trying to eliminate burn problems and the off flavors that come from under-worked tobacco."
http://www.bestcigarprices.com/best-honduran/
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Rocky, Rejuvenated
Conrado Plasencia is making his rounds at the family’s Paraiso Cigar factory in El Paraiso, just down the road from Danlí, when I arrive with the gregarious crew from Indian Tabac Cigar Company, and their American guests with whom I’d shared the bus ride from Tegucigalpa. Indian has recently re-energized its line of cigars with new blends bearing the name of its founder, Rocky Patel. In addition to the popular Vintage 1990 and 1992 cigars (produced at General Cigar’s Danlí plant), it has launched Rocky Patel Sun-Grown and The Edge, both produced here at Paraiso by Plasencia. Previously used to produce short-filler cigars for private-label customers, the facility dedicated the majority of its resources to Indian less than a year ago, according to Jesus Fuego, Indian’s Director of Honduran Operations. Along with the Sun-Grown and Edge brands, the factory makes Indian Tabac’s Classic, Super Fuerte, and Cameroon Legend lines, and has grown to 70 teams (one roller, and one buncher) turning out between 50,000 and 60,000 cigars a day. “There were always good rollers here,” Fuego explains as he leads us on a morning tour through the busy factory, “but for our premium cigars, we have a different standard [than for short filler]. We took the best people here and put them on our products, and we trained the rest. We still produce some short-fillers here and we train new rollers on those before moving them to the Indian Tabac products.” Fuego and the staff here are especially proud of the aging and fermentation that goes into Patel’s cigars, overseen by Peter Harkan, an industry veteran from the Netherlands who is now Plasencia’s right-hand man for tobacco processing in Honduras. Harkan’s employees in the sorting and fermentation departments study the bales and piles with a scrutiny rivaling a white-glove military inspection. “We have a, how do you say?...obsession with the sorting,” Jesus says, reaching for the right word. “Even when we get tobacco from plants that do all the sorting and fermentation before selling the tobacco, we usually re-ferment it until it’s the way we like it, about 80-90 percent of the time. Sometimes we also age it a bit more.” By way of example, Jesus invites me to inhale a faceful of some insufficiently fermented leaf. It reminds me of the first time I sampled tequila straight from the still at 150 proof; it is sharp, strong, and full of ammonia. By contrast, the RP Sun-Grown, smoked later after a traditional Honduran dinner with the Indian Tabac boys and their guests, is smooth and rich, the perfect dessert."
He definitely made a big deal about aging and fermenting properly when I talked to him. Seems he is definitely known about that. Probably why I liked his new cigar so much! I will be purchasing a box of the Belicoso size this week. My local B&M guy just rcvd the shipment today.
For those of you who sent me PM's about it I am still trying to get his contact info.
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