Entubar CRV from Berger and Argenti
June 29, 2011
Thomas B. Bender (TommyBB)
Editor-in-Chief
Spring ended about a week ago,according to the calendar, but new life abounds in the cigar industry, which continues to blossom and bloom with the seasons. Not only is Spring recently quit for Summer, but the annual International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association trade show approaches. And that ushers in new buds opening in the world of premium cigars. Existing brands are "blossoming" with new packaging for already extant lines, or they expand with new vitolas; new blends and lines are brought forth, as well as new companies arising as shoots off of old, or altogether new make their appearances.
Miami-based Beger and Argenti are revealing, today, their own blossom and new growth of their successful Entubar brand which appeared a couple years ago at this time, and added the Quad Maduro last year. "The official debut of Entubar CRV will take place next month at the 79th Annual IPCPR Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada." states the company's press release.
Entubar CRV (Connecticut River Valley) is a medium-full flavored, extension of the Entubar cigar brand. Blended with flavorful, deeply aged Nicaraguan and Dominican tobaccos ensconced in a U.S. Connecticut #1 Grade Shade-Grown wrapper, Entubar CRV is delicately packaged in rustic Spanish cedar boxes of 20 cigars and available in five (5) distinct vitolas: Corona Macho (4 5/8” x 48); Robusto (5 3/8” x 54); Double Corona (7 5/8” x 54); Torpedo (6 7/8” x 56) and Gran Toro (6 5/8” x 54).
“Entubar CRV is a natural step in the evolution of the Entubar brand, using a top grade, shade-grown U.S. Connecticut River Valley wrapper,” said Michael Argenti, president of Berger & Argenti. “The blend exhibits a wonderful dichotomy of flavor – rich, bold and complex yet very smooth and creamy.”
According to Berger and Argenti, and spokesman Al Argenti, the idea of the brands Entubar CRV and Entubar itself is "to pay tribute to the time-honored Cuban cigar making technique known as ‘entubado’ while also establishing a revolutionary new process of manufacturing premium cigars."
"Each aged Nicaraguan filler leaf that comprises all Entubar cigars are carefully rolled creating delicate ‘scrolls’ of rich, flavorful tobacco. This age-old method ensures open chambers of air flow from the foot to the head of the cigar. The ligero tobacco, which lends the cigar its unique full body, are bunched independently and then placed into the center of the remaining ‘entubado’ rolled filler blend. This ‘channel’ of ligero tobacco ranges the full length of the cigar and extends 3/8” beyond the finished trimmed foot, creating a startlingly unique ‘fuse like’ appearance that assures a superior draw, flawless conical burn with a long white ash, and a myriad of complex flavors channeled directly onto the palate.
