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In a video on our Daily Reader titled "Smoke Rings: Toscano Cigar and Drink Pairing," Michael Cappellini of Toscano Cigars shared an interesting insight about tobacco that is grown in Italy that I recalled while preparing this piece: "Southern Italian tobacco is arguably some of the lightest tobacco because of the soil composition due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius." Every aspect of the environment has a profound impact on the resulting tobacco crop, and the journey for the plant doesn't end once it's picked, with a world of decisions farmers make in cultivating, curing, and preparing tobacco to be sold to blenders like Jeremy Reeves

Dry-down: Char-tinged tobacco with a leathery-amber trail