Taken From The Devil's Hand

Esteban Carreras Taken From The Devil's Hand is named for the unique journey that the cigar's tobacco/seeds underwent over the past 30 years in order to rolled today. As story has it, Gonzalo Puentes (manager of the Tabacalera Carreras factory in Nicaragua) once worked on tobacco for the Ministry of Agriculture in Cuba. Tasked with developing a superior Corojo seed, he and his team would select seeds from the strongest plants (roughly five percent) of each harvest. These seeds were then planted, and again the strongest five percent would make it onto the next round. But at the end of the experiment, the seeds were smuggled out of the country, delivering a weaker strain to Castro in their place. In other words, the seeds were Taken From The Devil's Hand... This tobacco is used as the cigar's Nicaraguan Corojo wrapper, which surrounds a double Nicaraguan binder (Estelí and Jalapa) and fillers from Nicaragua's Condega region.