La Flor Dominicana Oro Tubo No. 6 Natural 6″ x 54

The Oro sits near the top of La Flor Dominicana’s range. It ships in a gold aluminum tube, in boxes of five, which is how it travels without getting knocked about.

The blend runs a high-priming Nicaraguan Habano sun grown wrapper over binder and filler grown on Litto Gómez’s own La Canela farm in the Dominican Republic. Expect a spicy opening of black pepper and cedar, then coffee and a caramel sweetness through the middle, finishing long and warm. At 6 by 54 it burns slow.

The Oro is a Coronado blend underneath, with the wrapper swapped for leaf taken from the higher primings, the leaves nearest the top of the plant that get the most sun and carry the most strength. That one change is what pushes it past the house Connecticut lines.

Pairs well with bourbon, espresso, or porter.