The Favourite Wrapper

[El Presidente]

Great Article by Simon at CJ. 

 

THE FAVORITE WRAPPER

 

It’s mid-afternoon at La Paulita, one of Oliva Tobacco Company’s farms outside of Quevedo in Ecuador. The assistant operations manager, Henry Lopez, is demonstrating the quality of the tobacco leaves hung up to cure in a barn. “We first enter in the dark, so we don’t see the color of the tobacco, we just smell it,” he explains to me. “If there’s a sweet smell, it’s doing fine, but if it smells bad, like a sweaty T-shirt, it’s too humid. 

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