We visited a tobacco plantation in the Viñales valley
The tobacco farmer told us about the process of tobacco
cultivation and showed us how he rolled a cigar
Click on the movie and you see it
The Viñales valley is growing, according to experts,
the best tobacco of
the World
Since 1999 this valley is on the World Heritage List of UNESCO
The
Pinar del Río province covers an area of 10.860 km ², has over 726.000
inhabitants and is situated in the extreme west of Cuba
Pinar del Río is, with seventy to eighty percent of the Cuban
tobacco production, the main supplier of this famous Cuban product
The
provincial capital is therefore called the
"Tobacco Capital of Cuba”
During the growth the flowers are cut out, so all the nutrients benefit to the leaves
Because not all the leaves are ripe at the same time, they are plucked one by one
The leaves are after harvesting bundled in size and structure and hung out to dry in a well ventilated tobacco barn
This causes the tobacco brew (ferment)
This process takes about 10 weeks and then the tobacco originated is often a little bitter
To improve the taste different varieties of tobacco are mixed
with each other
We were invited to drink a delicious cup of Cuban coffee and were allowed to see his house
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