就像約瑟夫康拉德的小說里描述的那樣，CAO雪茄亞馬遜盆地系列的最新版本采用了一種巴西煙葉，這種煙葉生長在亞馬遜雨林里，沿著亞馬遜河運出來，最終加入到這款限量版雪茄的煙葉混合中。

這款添加的熱帶煙草名為Bragan?a，種植方法有別于常。根據品牌所有者斯堪的納維亞煙草集團（STG）所說，Bragan?a的幼苗種植在土壤里時，彼此相距一碼的距離，產量僅僅是其他品種的煙葉的一半。收貨后，煙葉被裝入到稱為“胡蘿卜”的管中進行六個月的發酵。這些裝著煙草的“胡蘿卜”會裝入獨木舟，劃出亞馬遜河的叢林，完成從黑暗森林到尼加拉瓜埃斯特利的STG雪茄廠的旅程，在那里，CAO雪茄被卷制出來。

沿著亞馬遜河劃行的獨木舟上的煙草形象無疑給這款產品帶來了文學氣息，STG認為，茄芯煙葉中的Bragan?a確實為雪茄帶來了異國情調。CAO亞馬遜的規格是52環徑粗、6英寸長。茄衣是深色的厄瓜多爾蘇門答臘煙葉，茄套是尼加拉瓜煙葉，茄芯是哥倫比亞、多米尼加以及包含巴西的Bragan?a的混合煙葉。

這個產品的另外一個特征是每支雪茄都綁著一根繩子狀的煙葉作為它的煙標。這些公牛造型的雪茄每盒18支包裝，上周開始以質樸、原始的風格包裝后運送。在美國的每支零售價是12.99美元，限量發行6000盒。

這不是STG集團第一次為CAO品牌使用不尋常的煙草，亞馬遜系列始于2014年，Orellana（奧雷利亞納）、Fuma Em Corda都是這個品牌的后續版本和延伸。

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Like something from a Joseph Conrad novel, the newest version of CAO Amazon Basin features a Brazilian tobacco that’s grown in the Amazon rain forest and transported by boat down the Amazon River before it’s blended into this limited-edition cigar.

The tropical tobacco is called Bragan?a and its methods for cultivation are quite unorthodox. According to brand owner Scandinavian Tobacco Group, seedlings for Bragan?a are planted in the soil a full yard apart from each other, resulting in half the yield of other tobacco crops. Once culled, the leaves are packed tightly into tubes called carottes (similar to the condensed cylinders of andullo) where the tobacco undergoes a six-month fermentation. The carottes of tobacco are then loaded into a canoe and paddled out of the jungle on the Amazon River, eventually completing its journey from the heart of darkness to the STG Estelí factory in Nicaragua, where CAO cigars are produced.?

The image of tobacco in a canoe gliding along the Amazon River certainly gives this release a literary air, but STG believes that the Bragan?a in the filler truly brings an exotic note to the cigar. At 6 inches by 52 ring gauge, CAO Amazon Basin is composed of a dark Ecuador Sumatra wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and a filler blend of Colombian and Dominican tobacco that accentuates the Brazilian Bragan?a.

Another distinctive trait quite unique to the CAO Amazon Basin brand is the rope-like tobacco tied around each cigar serving as its band. These tropical toros started shipping last week in rustic, primitive-looking boxes of 18, and retail for $12.99 per cigar. Only 6,000 boxes have been made for the U.S. market.

This isn’t the first time that STG has used unusual tobaccos for its CAO brands. Releases like CAO Orellana and CAO Fuma Em Corda are extensions of the Amazon Basin series, which started in 2014.?