Some cigars are made to be smoked.
Others are made to be remembered.
Gran Reserva Monte Fino belongs to the second kind.
Created by El Kapi Cigars in Nicaragua, this cigar represents an idea that has always been important to us: great tobacco cannot be rushed.
Its character begins with a five-year-aged Ecuador Habano Maduro wrapper, combined with five-year-aged Jalapa tobacco in the capote and filler.
But age alone does not create a great cigar.
It is what happens when carefully selected tobacco, time, craftsmanship and patience finally come together.
A Cigar with Presence
The Monte Fino is presented in a distinctive torpedo shape, giving the smoker the opportunity to experience the cigar gradually and deliberately.
It is not designed for a hurried smoke.
It is a cigar for the moments when there is time to sit down.
A good rum.
A coffee.
A conversation.
Perhaps some music in the background.
And nothing that needs to be done immediately.
From Nicaragua, with Character
For us, Nicaragua is not simply the place where a cigar is made.
It is part of its identity.
The volcanic soil, the tobacco-growing regions, the people who work with the leaves, the climate, the traditions and the generations of knowledge all become part of the experience.
That is why Gran Reserva Monte Fino is not about trying to imitate something from somewhere else.
It is about allowing Nicaraguan tobacco to speak for itself.
More Than a Cigar
There is also another reason why Monte Fino is important to us.
It represents the direction we are taking with El Tercer Patio.
A place where cigars are not simply products displayed on a shelf.
Where you can see tobacco being worked.
Where you can sit with the people who understand it.
Where a cigar can be accompanied by rum, coffee, food, music and conversation.
Where the experience matters just as much as the cigar itself.
Gran Reserva Monte Fino is one of those cigars that belongs around a table.
And perhaps, one day, around the table at El Tercer Patio in Granada.
El Kapi Cigars
Nicaragua
Time. Tobacco. Patience.
Gran Reserva Monte Fino.