Aladino Cameroon Gordo

JRE Tobacco Co.

• Country of Origin: Honduras
• Factory: Fábrica de Puros Aladino at Las Lomas Jamastran
• Wrapper: Honduras (Cameroon)
• Binder: Honduras (Corojo)
• Filler: Honduras (Corojo)
• Length: 6 1/2 Inches
• Ring Gauge: 60
• Vitola: Gordo
• MSRP: $11 (Box of 20, $220)
• Release Date: July 2022
• Number of Cigars Released: Regular Production
• Original Score: 91

As the name indicates, the blend incorporates a Cameroon wrapper, but instead of being grown in the aforementioned African country, the tobacco used to cover the cigar is a Cameroon-seed wrapper—itself a modified a Sumatra seed—grown by the Eiroa family in Honduras. In fact, the Aladino Cameroon is made entirely of Honduran leaves, including corojo-seed tobaccos used in the filler.

The resulting blend is a flavor bomb full of a multitude of flavors, including sourdough bread, hay, peanuts and cedar as well as some brown sugar sweetness and red pepper on the retrohale.

The Eiroa family—Julio and Justo of JRE and Christian of CLE—and its cigars have been a major force in changing my mind about Honduran-dominant blends. The Aladino Cameroon Gordo is just another feather in the cap for the family. — Brooks Whittington.