It’s been a while since Brooks Whittington and I were left unattended on the rolling floor of Cigars Davidoff, but today is the third—and yet not final—look at the photography from our trip to Davidoff’s Dominican operations. It started quite literally on a farm in Jicomé, then nearby at Procesadora de Tabaco Palmarejo (PTP) and now at Villa Gonzales, home to three Davidoff factories—Cigars Davidoff, Occidental Cigar Factory and O.K. Cigars. Occidental is responsible for clients like Hammer + Sickle and Paul Garmirian. It’s where employees begin their training before graduating to O.K. Cigars, the factory responsible for AVO, Zino and other non-Davidoff brands in the Davidoff of Geneva portfolio. The best will eventually find their way to Cigars Davidoff (Cidav), which is where Davidoff’s famed white label products are rolled and where Brooks Whittington took the following pictures. The exterior of the Cigars Davidoff factory in Villa Gonzales. Like many other factories, wrapper is stripped by machine, which removes the vein in the center and creates two separate leaves. Filler is stripped by hand. The veins that are stripped off of the leaves collect in the bottom of the machine. The rolling floor at Cigars Davidoff. Davidoff is known for its quality ...
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