Episode 51: Vegas de Santiago: Puros Edición Especial and Ron Botrán Solera 1893
This week’s pair is includes a Costa Rican puro from a small cigar manufacturer: Vegas de Santiago, and the libation is a venerable Guatemalan rum: Ron Botrán Solera 1893.
The cigar I am smoking today is a 6 x 52 Torpedo made from 100% Costa Rican grown tobacco. The tobacco for the Puros line is the result of years of crossbreeding with plants grown from pre-Castro Cuban seeds. The farmers of the Santiago de Puriscal Region in Costa Rica, grow tobacco for the cigars of Vegas de Santiago in the rich and fertile volcanic highlands at a height of 1100 meters (3500 ft.)
Today’s Rum, Ron Botrán Solera 1893, is Guatemalan rum that is blended with select aged rums from the special reserves of the house of Botrán.
The rum is distilled from fermented sugar cane syrup and matured for 18-years in select white oak casks. Though the distilling takes place at sea level, the aging cellars in are in the Quetzaltenango highlands, which are located at 7,654 feet above sea level. This highland aging formula is considered perfect as regards temperature, light, humidity and even sound and represents the ideal conditions for aging rum.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
