As a key part of its branding, Camacho has taken on numerous elements of living a bold lifestyle. For its latest release, Powerband, the company is drawing on motorcycles and in particular, the term that refers to the point in the rpm range of a motorcycle’s engine where the most power is being produced. The Powerband is part of Camacho’s Master-Built Series, which includes the Camacho American Barrel-Aged and Camacho Triple Maduro. It is billed as a fairly full bodied cigar, using an Ecuadorian habano 2000 wrapper, a Mexican San Andrés negrito binder and a filler blend that contains Camacho’s signature Honduran corojo from the ligero priming, plus another corojo ligero from Estelí, Nicaragua, as well as Dominican San Vicente ligero, San Vicente viso and Dominican piloto Cubano. While the blend components are impressive on their own, the technique used to create the Powerband is even more so. While the company isn’t disclosing much in the way of specifics, the filler leaves are bunched using a new technique that combines the Dominican accordion style with the Cuban entubao technique, a process that rolls the filler leaves into long cylindrical tubes. The Camacho Powerband is being released in three sizes. Camacho Powerband ...
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