Always made right
We don't spend time making pretty cigars. We spend time making the best cigar we can. From planting and harvesting to curing and blending, it takes almost a year to go from tobacco seed to Backwoods cigar. The result might look a little rough around the edges, but the smoking experience itself is nothing less than smooth.
Growing the Seeds
It all starts with tobacco seeds planted in meticulously constructed seedbeds. The seeds germinate for one to two weeks, growing and flourishing until the plants reach a height of 10–12 feet. The tobacco leaves are ready to be harvested about 55 days after planting, when they respond to a bend with a nice, crispy snap.
Harvesting the Plants
The leaves are hung in specially prepared curing barns, where they evolve from their pliable bright green state to their cigar-friendly dried and darker form. Post-curing, the leaves are separated by size and pigment and packed away in bundles for fermentation for 7–8 weeks — the time when the taste and aroma of the leaf is born.
Blending the Leaves
The leaves that form the cigar filling are bunched together and stripped of their stems before final fermentation occurs. About a month later, they're blended together to form our unique Backwoods recipe.
Wrapping the Cigars
It's finally time to wrap each Backwoods cigar in a distinctively aged natural tobacco leaf wrapper through our unique process. In addition to the frayed end, tapered body and unfinished head of each Backwoods cigar, this wrapping process lends the cigars their distinctive rustic color. It also leads to the mellow burn and sweetness of their taste.