In today’s episode, Doc is going to compare a Nicaraguan puro with one of the world’s favorite libations: coffee. For you folks who appreciate great coffee with a great smoke, you are in for a treat.

 

The Carlos Toraño Noventa, which means “ninety” in Spanish, is the celebration of the Toraño family's 90-year tradition as tobacco growers and producers of some of the finest hand rolled cigars in the world. It’s a blend made from the best 5-year-old Nicaraguan tobaccos, hand selected by the Toraño family from their farms in Nicaragua.

 

 

 

Today’s coffee is from the farm of Las Alturas de Puriscal, which is a spacious 300-acre rancho situated at an elevation of 3200 feet, in the highlands of Puriscal, Costa Rica. Besides being the location of the coffee farm, Las Alturas de Puriscal also serves as a conveniently located bed & breakfast inn. It’s situated within minutes of two cigar factories and is only a 90-minute drive from many beaches in the Central Pacific region of Costa Rica. Las Alturas de Puriscal, as described by me in a recent Stogie Fresh Cigar Journal article, is an ideal place to stay if you’re interested in visiting the cigar factories in this scenic Costa Rican region.