tmac77 Posted March 13, 2011 Posted March 13, 2011 THe wife and I went ot visit the F Correnti Cigar Factory today. For those that do not know, the Correnti Cigar factory is the only manufacturer of Cuban hand-made cigars in Canada. They import tobacco leaves from cuba and hand roll the actual cigars in a small factory in downtown Toronto. In fact the current owner, Johnny Miller, actually enjoys the rare privilage of being able to choose every bale of tobacco that he imports from Cuba personally. For a bit more detail on the history of the Company, which dates back to his great grandfather's cigar factory in the 1880's in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unfortunately when my wife and I visited today the owner, nor his son were in the factory. The head roller, however, who goes by the name of Titi, was kind enough to tell us a bit about thier operations and give us a brief tour. (Pics in posts below). Titi is Cuban, but has been in Canada now for 8 years. She has been rolling and smoking cigars since she was a small girl. Correnti's sells two versions of thier Cigars. The aniversary edition, which uses 25 year old leaf and is hand rolled by Titi only, and the regular edition which is rolled daily by the other two rollers that Titi trained. They have quite a few vitola's listed on their website but when I was there today they had a limited vaariety of Petit Corona, Robusto, Coronation's and Churchill #2's which looks a bit like a Monte 2 in size and shape. Bought a few sticks and then bumped into "CK" a fellow FOH BOTL who also decided to drop by Correnti's today. A nice surprise!! Anyway I will now try to post up some pics from the visit. Well I posted some of the pics but some of the nicer ones have a file size over the 2mb limit.
tmac77 Posted March 13, 2011 Author Posted March 13, 2011 Here is the link to their website for some more on the history: http://www.correnticigars.com/ http://www.correnticigars.com/
pedromendes Posted March 13, 2011 Posted March 13, 2011 Yeah, this place is special and more people need to check it out - nice report!
Puros Y Vino Posted March 15, 2011 Posted March 15, 2011 Great post. Much appreciated! I've always heard of this place but have never visited. Going to have to change that.
maverickdrinker Posted March 15, 2011 Posted March 15, 2011 I've had their cigars a couple of times. They were ok. I smoked them right off the table. May have to pick up a few to see how they age. Thanks for the post.
Fuzz Posted March 15, 2011 Posted March 15, 2011 Interesting. I didn't think Cuba exported their tobacco to foreign rollers.
tmac77 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Posted March 16, 2011 Interesting. I didn't think Cuba exported their tobacco to foreign rollers. I had no idea myself about Cuba exporting tobacco until I heard about this place. Very small operation though, two or three rollers mostly catering to walk in buyers. It is a piece of history for us locals though.
tmac77 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Posted March 16, 2011 So what do you think of their smokes? As for their cigars, I bought a few and am letting them rest a bit in my humidor for a week or two. I will post up a review of one of them in due course.
headstand Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Thanks for the post. I will have occasion to travel to Toronto this summer - might just have to stop in... Will be looking for the review. Cheers.
tmac77 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Posted March 16, 2011 Thanks for the post. I will have occasion to travel to Toronto this summer - might just have to stop in...Will be looking for the review. Cheers. Quite a few Toronto FOH members in here. give us a heads up on your visit and we will try and hook up.
tmac77 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Posted March 16, 2011 The wall of cigar bands. Many of these go back to pre embargo days. Uploaded with ImageShack.us
adic88 Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Thanks for sharing this! I wonder if they do mail orders...
tmac77 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Posted March 16, 2011 Thanks for sharing this! I wonder if they do mail orders... Not sure about that Aizuddin. They are a very small operation. The sticks that I got were actually being rolled as we ordered. bTW love your video reviews
headstand Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Quite a few Toronto FOH members in here. give us a heads up on your visit and we will try and hook up. Toronto just tends to be where I pick up a rental to make the drive north to Sudbury. Would be pleasant to take a day and share some smoke time with other forum members. Thanks for the invite. Alan
cigarros Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Unbelieveble! I always think that cubans didn't export their raw tobacco.. Thanks for sharing this!
mikec Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Correntis do ship cigars via mail order but in my opinion your money would be much better spent on a box of regular CC's. The construction of their cigars varies from roller to roller and they have maybe one or two torceadores that are any good. The actual blend of the cigars is mostly non existent and are basically volado rolls. I don't think they use any ligero at all and they can be very very light in taste. They sometimes get lucky and score a nice bale of tobacco and if you instruct them very closely you might get a nice cigar. The actual tobacco they get I suspect is most likely Vuelta Arriba or one of the other lesser known regions. Don't get me wrong I have smoked a good cigar from there but only with me looking over the torceadores shoulder all the way.
lonsdaleto Posted March 27, 2011 Posted March 27, 2011 Correntis do ship cigars via mail order but in my opinion your money would be much better spent on a box of regular CC's. The construction of their cigars varies from roller to roller and they have maybe one or two torceadores that are any good. The actual blend of the cigars is mostly non existent and are basically volado rolls. I don't think they use any ligero at all and they can be very very light in taste. They sometimes get lucky and score a nice bale of tobacco and if you instruct them very closely you might get a nice cigar. The actual tobacco they get I suspect is most likely Vuelta Arriba or one of the other lesser known regions. Don't get me wrong I have smoked a good cigar from there but only with me looking over the torceadores shoulder all the way. That echoes my own experience with their cigars. I dropped in once and picked up a few petit coronas and a few robustos and had them in my humidor for about a year before I finished them all. They weren't terrible but they were pretty bland and uninteresting. It was a very interesting place to visit though and would totally be up for a FOH Toronto gathering there!
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