The Caliqueño cigar is a popular cigar handmade, is a Valencian product par excellence, made with Burley tobacco, planted and manufactured in that area. At present, its consumption extends to all the Iberian Peninsula, but the area traditionally more consuming of this type of cigar is the Valencian Community, especially the locality of Chella, the cradle of this cigar.
Since the eighteenth century was introduced tobacco cultivation in Spain to this day, the Calicheño is associated with fairs, popular festivities and neighborhood bars. The Calicheño, like other elements such as the paella or the Fallas, is part of the Valencian folklore, rich in sayings and popular songs that include "caliqueño" in its lyrics (sometimes with vulgar meaning). A little history
The origin of the Calico cigar is in the nineteenth century, several centuries after the introduction of tobacco in Spain (17th century), when Spanish settlers in America brought the cultivation and processing of tobacco products to Spain. Traditionally, it was women who manufactured cigarettes in clandestine workshops, thanks to local farmers reserving part of their plots for the tobacco supply, and then smuggled into bars and other village establishments. With the trade of the Calicans, women could contribute extra income to the family economies, a custom that has continued to be maintained even today.
In the region of La Canal de Navarrés, large tobacco plantations have long been used for decades, replaced for a long time by tobacco from other areas, especially Extremadura, since this could avoid the risk that the usual hailstones in the area, will damage the plant leaf and therefore the crop of the year. Technical data
In varieties: Caliqueño, Pata de Elefante, Farias or Señoritas.
Like other artisan cigars, the Calicheño is made up of three parts, each of which is made from different layers of the tobacco plant:
The Calicheño is usually a cigar of about 10cm long with a rather striking finish because of the unevenness, roughness and thickness of the leaf's nerves, unlike other cigars, which have a smooth finish and cleansed. The reason for this coarse aspect is due to the adaptation experienced by the tobacco plant to grow under climatic conditions that are not the own of this species.
Another of the technical characteristics of this cigar is that it is a totally dry cigar, unlike the pure ones in Central America and the Caribbean, which carry a certain degree of humidity.
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