General Cigars is Releasing a Limited Edition Macanudo Inspirado

General Cigars is releasing a limited edition Macanudo Inspirado that will use a tobacco that started life as a Habano-seed from the Jamastran Valley in Honduras, but was planted in the Mao region of the Dominican Republic. That’s also the inspiration for the name, Jamao.

That combination is where the Jamao name came to be, combining “Jamastran” and “Mao.” Ma is located in the north-western part of the country, about halfway between Santiago de los Caballeros and the Haitian border. The tobacco is grown without the use of shade cloth. The binder is Honduran and filler tobaccos from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. There are two sizes available, a 5¾x52 Toro and a 7×49 Churchill.

“For this limited edition expression of Macanudo Inspirado, we acclimated a Habano seed varietal from Jamastran, Honduras to Mao, DR and ultimately produced a beautiful wrapper,” says Jhonys Diaz, svp of leaf operations for General Cigar Co., in a press release. “To honour the many people who worked hard to produce this wrapper for the first time, we named the release ‘Jamao’ which represents the blending of Jamastran and Mao.”