In December, RoMa Craft Tobac shipped its latest creation, the CRAFT 2013 La Campaña de Panamá Soberana. Creation it is, a combination of the company’s Aquitaine, CroMagnon and Intemperance lines into a single round perfecto package. The cigar uses all the tobaccos the company uses on its current regular production offerings, with the exception of the Intemperance’s Indonesian binder. The wrapper is Ecuadorian habano normally founded on the Aquitaine. The strapless come from the Intemperance’s Brazilian ariparaca and Ecuadorian Connecticut wrappers. The filler is six different leaves—split between two visos, secos and ligeros—that is mainly Nicaraguan, although contains some Cameroon. As for the CroMagnon’s Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, it serves as the CRAFT 2013’s binder. The cigar is an annual release with a 2014 version expected this year. I reviewed the cigar in June and was not very impressed as far as RoMa Craft Tobac is concerned: I thought this cigar would be a lot better. I think Intemperance is a phenomenal cigar, CroMagnon a unique cigar that I can appreciate without loving and find nothing wrong with Aquitaine, other than it’s my least favorite of the company’s lines. That being said, putting them together in one package produced something that makes ...
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