Editor’s Note: Each week, our friends at the Smooth Draws Radio Show, based in Atlanta, GA, do a review of ‘The Cigar of the Week’ on their radio show, which can be heard Saturday mornings on AM1230 ESPN the Fan 2 (WFOM radio) from 9AM to 11AM. That review is printed (in its entirety) here on Cigarweekly.com, usually on the Monday following its broadcast.

The Smooth Draws Radio Show Pick of the Week

THE CIGAR

As our ‘Premium Cigars of Georgia’ cigar of the week, we’ve selected the Perdomo Factory Tour Blend Series Sun Grown.

BACK STORY

Truly, you will never have a higher appreciation for cigars then after having experienced a factory tour. And many a cigar enthusiast has travelled (or will eventually travel) to a tobacco producing country to take in a cigar factory tour.

Perdomo has gained a reputation as one of a handful of companies offering tours of its factory, by welcoming consumers and retailers from all around the world to its facilities in Nicaragua.

The Factory Tour Blend was inspired by Perdomo’s fifteen years of factory tours. The company says that Aristides Garcia, one of the factory’s long time managers, would roll special cigars for guests who toured the Nicaraguan factory. And now that special blend is being made available to everyone.

The Perfomo Factory Tour Blend Series pays homage to the customers and retailers who have visited the Perdomo Factory in Nicaragua. The company showcased this line at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show.

THE CONSTRUCTION

Being a Perdomo, the construction of the Factory Tour Blend Sun Grown is impeccable. It is produced in Nicaragua at Tabacalera Perdomo. And as is the case with many of Perdomo’s lines, the Factory Tour Blend is available in three wrapper options – Sun Grown, Connecticut and Maduro.

The Sun Grown version uses a an earthy sun grown wrapper from Nicaragua’s Jalapa Valley, laid over a sweet binder from Nicaragua’s Condega Valley and spicy fillers from the Estelí Valley of Nicaragua.

The cigar is available in four sizes – Robusto, Toro, Torpedo and Churchill. All the vitolas come in boxes of twenty-four.

THE DRAW

The Factory Tour Blend Sun Grown exhibited an ideal draw, which was smooth and easy, and made for an incredible smoking experience. The draw produced a large amount of white, complex and robustly tasty smoke.

THE CIGAR TASTE PROFILE

We found the Factory Tour Sun Grown to be a full bodied smoke. This Sun Grown blend was robust, complex and very well balanced. We discerned notes of pepper, spice, nuts, cedar, earth and leather along with hints of sweet cream.

DOES IT GET A BUY RECOMMENDATION?

If you can’t make a trip to Nicaragua to take in the Perdomo factory tour, this cigar may well prove the next best thing. The Factory Tour Sun Grown is definitely an after-dinner cigar, and is aimed squarely at the experienced aficionado.