Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 2 5-Cigar Sampler Gift Set with Torch Lighter

The Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 2 is the collaborative effort of two living legends in the cigar industry: AJ Fernandez and Rafael Nodal of Aging Room and head of product capability for Tabacalera USA. Like its predecessor, the Espiritu Series No. 2 focuses on the tobacco from one country, which is Brazil in this release. This medium to full bodied cigar features an oily, dark Brazilian Arapiraca maduro wrapper that cloaks a Nicaraguan binder and a filler composed of long-filler leaves from Nicaragua and Brazil. This exotic blend captures the true essence of Brazilian tobacco and fine cigar craftsmanship. The Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 2 is handmade at AJ Fernandez’s famed Tabacalera Fernandez in Nicaragua. Enjoy this fine cigar even more by listening to the Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 2 playlist featuring some of Brazil’s top recording artists on Spotify. Go to www.spotify.com and look up Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 2.

Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
Despite many decades of war and revolution in this Central American country, the cigar industry has thrived due to the hard work and tenacity of Cuban exiles to the land such as Plasencia, Padron, Oliva, Ortez, and others. Tobacco has been a force of social stability, and the country is now one of the principal exporters of premium cigars in the world.

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
Maduro wrapper can go from dark coffee brown with a reddish tint to blackish brown (the latter also called Oscuro).

Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.

Cuban expatriate AJ Fernandez produces handmade cigars in Esteli, Nicaragua at the Tabacalera Fernandez factory. Fernandez learned everything he knows about tobacco and cigarmaking from his late grandfather, cigar legend Alejandro Robaina.

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
Brazilian Arapiraca is grown in the Brazilian municipality of Arapiraca in the eastern central part of the country. The production of this popular tobacco leaf has earned Arapiraca the nickname of "Brazilian Tobacco Capital". Arapiraca tobacco is thicker than Mata Fina but more subtle in both flavor and aroma. It is used to add complexity to a blend.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
Nicaraguan cigar binders are produced mainly in Esteli and Jalapa, both lands with volcanic soil and excellent climate for growing tobacco. Binders grown in Jalapa have sweet undertones. Corojo, Habana2000, Criollo, and Maduro binders are all produced in Nicaragua.

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.
Brazil produces rich, medium to strong, dark tobaccos with a sweet taste and aroma. Most of the cigar production is concentrated on the eastern coast of Brazil, in the state of Bahia.