ThePlasencia Alma Fuerte Colorado Claro Eduardo I carries a name that reaches all the way back to the beginning of the Plasencia family's tobacco story. Eduardo Plasencia began growing tobacco in Cuba in1865, establishing a tradition that has now passed through five generations and made Plasencia one of the most important tobacco-growing families in the cigar world. Named in his honor, the Eduardo I is handcrafted in Nicaragua entirely from tobacco grown by the Plasencias themselves—a true Nicaraguan puro whose pedigree begins in the field rather than at the rolling table.
At6¼" x 54, this box-pressed Toro showcases the defining leaf of Alma Fuerte Colorado Claro: a carefully selectedNicaraguan Colorado Claro wrapper aged for ten years. Beneath it lies an all-Nicaraguan binder and filler recipe drawn from the family's extraordinary tobacco reserves. Compared with the darker original Alma Fuerte, the Colorado Claro wrapper gives the cigar a more tempered personality, allowingcocoa and almond to emerge alongside cedar, nutmeg and underlying natural sweetness. There's still plenty of Nicaraguan structure beneath it, but the emphasis is on definition and balance rather than sheer weight.
The Eduardo I is particularly meaningful because the cigar connects Plasencia's modern accomplishments with the man who started the family's journey more than 160 years ago. This is tobacco grown, aged, blended and ultimately rolled by one family with generations of accumulated knowledge behind it. For an aficionado, that degree of control over the leaf is what makes Alma Fuerte compelling—and the Eduardo I may be one of its most complete expressions.
