RoMa Craft CroMagnon, Aquitaine, Intemperance

At Anthony’s Cigar Emporium we strive to provide the very best selection of premium cigars to its customers.  From customer demand, we are now carrying all the lines of the ultra-boutique maker RoMa Craft Tobac.  RoMa Craft was a joint venture between  Skip Martin and Michael Rosales that was first formed in 2011.  This is the newest boutique company to take the connoisseur world by storm.  It has its own production facilities in Esteli, Nicaragua called the Fabrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño.  Originally CroMagnon and Aquitaine were released to brick and mortar stores in Texas and their popularity took off.

The CroMagnon is a full-bodied blend of some of the world’s most sought after tobaccos: US Connecticut, Cameroon, and Esteli, Nicaragua. It is a unique cigar that a small boutique brand can blend: US Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper, a Cameroon binder and an amazing marriage of three Nicaraguan varietals in the filler. The filler leaf was acquired from three separate growing regions in Nicaragua: Esteli, Condega and a small farm north of Esteli on the Honduran border. This third leaf from the small farm, a ligero, brings a strong, smoky, savory flavor to the blend. When combined with the mildly-sweet characteristics of the broadleaf maduro wrapper, the exotic bite of the Cameroon binder and the clean finish of its Nicaraguan viso and seco companions, the blend delivers a deep rich tobacco flavor.

The Aquitaine has the same blend of Cameroon binder and Nicaraguan viso and seco leaves from three different Nicaraguan farms but with with a thick and oily Ecuadorian Habano Ligero wrapper.  This cigar is full throttle in flavor aroma and body.

CroMagnon and Aquitaine
Made by: RoMa Craft Tobac
Country: Nicaragua
Wrapper: US Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro (CroMagnon) Ecuadorian Habano Ligero (Aquitaine)
Binder: Cameroon
Filler: Nicaraguan

The Intemperance is the first wide release for RoMa Craft which pays homage in its branding to the American movement that overthrew Prohibition, and RoMa Craft calls on us to do our part to protect cigar freedoms.  The cigars were made to have the same quality and full flavor as the CroMagnon and the Aquitaine but with milder bodies that would appeal to a wider audience.  Both connoisseurs and novices alike can appreciate the complex character of the smokes without the heaviness of the CroMagnon or Aquitaine.  The cigars feature a slightly shaggy foot, and come in two different wrapper types: Ecuador Connecticut (EC XVIII) and Brazilian Arapiraca (BA XXI) Each cover a blend of Indonesian binder and Nicaraguan/Dominican fillers.  They have the same spice and earth notes of the Cameroon/Nicaraguan combo in the CroMagnon and Aquitaine but a little bit more toned down and subtle.   Both are enjoyable smokes with full flavor and aroma that wont make your head spin.

Intemperance EC XVIII and BA XXI
Made by: RoMa Craft Tobac
Country: Nicaragua
Wrapper: Ecuador Connecticut (EC XVIII) and Brazil Arapiraca Maduro (BA XXI)
Binder: Indonesia
Filler: Dominican and Nicaraguan Blend

From RoMa Craft:

“The branding for Intemperance evokes the history of prohibition and features a logo inspired by a famous artifact of the temperance movement, a propaganda poster/political print produced by a temperance hymnodist, A.D. Fillmore in 1855.

Intemperance EC XVIII (Ecuador Connecticut)

In the 18th century a global temperance movement began in rural Connecticut. After World War I, the movement began to spread like wildfire throughout the United States, and across the globe, as religious and women’s groups spread the gospel on the evils of alcohol. In 1919, the temperance movement achieved their goal when the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States established a national prohibition on the consumption of ‘intoxicating liquors’.

Intemperance BA XXI (Brazil Arapiraca)

 Following the ratification of the 18th Amendment, an intemperance movement was born. The Volstead Act had effectively turned every consumer, merchant and producer of alcohol into a criminal; organized crime took root. Without market and regulatory controls, alcohol became more dangerous to consume. The court system was brought to the brink of failure under the weight of criminal and civil cases related to prohibition. After a little more than a decade, public opinion had been turned and the effort to repeal prohibition emerged victorious with the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Despite the dismal failure of this ‘noble experiment’, the temperance movement marches on. Perhaps this is no better represented than in the form of the modern tobacco control movement, also known as the anti-smoking movement.”