Cumpay

Nicaragua is one of the world's newest, most beautiful and, even today, most promising cigar-producing regions. Tobacco plantations are springing up in this volcanic land, where the earth's fire is not far beneath the earth's crust (the still-hot volcanoes of Momotombo, Cerro Negro in Leon, Coyotepe in Managua).

The typicality of Nicaraguan tobaccos lies in their aromatic strength combined with great finesse, an ideal compromise between strength and pleasure. It's no coincidence that Nicaragua is the new "Eldorado" of cigars.

Cumpay is made at the Tabaco Segovia factory. The factory is squeezed around a patio lined with arcades where several hundred people, mostly women, are busy. Cumpay takes its name from Maya Selva (owner of the factory). In the Indian language of the «Tawakha» tribe who lived on this land, «cumpay» referred to the rolled tobacco leaf. Maya Selva lives up to her name (Selva means forest), and knows her story inside out. She says: «In the surrounding mountains, there are still Indians who make their own cigars using this method, and bury the leaves in their garden to ferment them.»

Cumpay cigars are Maya Selva's latest creation. She launched them in 1999. A singular cigar, she says, for at least three reasons: "Nicaragua's three terroirs go into its composition: Jalapa with its finest clay soil that gives wrapper and under-wrapper, Estelí with its volcanic sand and the Pacific with its rich granite and volcanic soils." The four modules are exclusively a blend of these unique terroirs.

Cape : Nicaragua
Sub-cape : Nicaragua
Tripe: Nicaragua