Maritza - A great Roller still going strong

[Nino]

Happy to meet Maritza Acuña again - a great roller from the H.Upmann factory.

Here some background and a video link showing her rolling a 109 yesterday :

 

http://flyingcigar.de/startseite/meeting-the-great-roller-maritza-acuna-again/
 

I  have known Maritza now for 15 years and have met her frequently in Havana at the H.Upmann factory where she leads the 60 best Category 9 rollers of that factory.

In fact she gave us in the Portmann group a class in rolling cigars at that factory back in 2007 …

I have met her again a few times in Germany on tour but I thought that by now she was retired as she is in her early 70s …

So it was a great pleasure to learn that she is once again on a rolling tour in Germany and she would stop at LCDH Kaiserslautern – just a 25 min. drive for me.

I drove there and spent a few hours talking with her and watching her perfectly roll a beautiful cigar.

Here is the video : 
 

I remember that back in 2007 we calculated that she had rolled about 2.5 million cigars during her career – she told me it was close or over the 3 million mark by now. Amazing.

Happy to see her still going strong and doing what she loves.

Nino

[99call]

This is the most diligent, loving rolling of a cigar I've ever seen. You can see all the years of experience. A bundle of these would be a real prize.

Thanks for posting @nino truelly mesmerizing

[Nino]

48 minutes ago, 99call said:

This is the most diligent, loving rolling of a cigar I've ever seen. You can see all the years of experience. A bundle of these would be a real prize.

Thanks for posting @nino truelly mesmerizing

Thank you - happy to share this.

If you watch carefully at 3:08 mins you will see she uses a piece of string/rubber band to hold the cigar together instead of glue - never have seen this before in any roller .... unique.

[anacostiakat]

WOW.  That was great.  Thanks!

[LLC]

Great care she takes rolling that cigar but I wonder if she typically takes 8 minutes to roll one. Based on that 3m cigars would be 400,000 hours or 10,000 typical work weeks.


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[bwgan]

Cracking video...

[nKostyan]

Great quality without pressform!
Thank you, Nino, for posting

[Nino]

35 minutes ago, LLC said:

Great care she takes rolling that cigar but I wonder if she typically takes 8 minutes to roll one. Based on that 3m cigars would be 400,000 hours or 10,000 typical work weeks.


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No, she wouldn't take that long in a Havana factory with a "norm system" and little incentives to roll more ...

But she is on a tour, not on the run or in the factory and over 70 now, so she may take as long as she cares to IMHO.

At least here she gets a monthly Cuban salary after rolling 3 cigars.

[LLC]

No, she wouldn't take that long in a Havana factory with a "norm system" and little incentives to roll more ...

But she is on a tour, not on the run or in the factory and over 70 now, so she may take as long as she cares to IMHO.

At least here she gets a monthly Cuban salary after rolling 3 cigars.

I agree she’s more than earned the right and great to see the skill of one of the top rollers. Thanks for posting.


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[JY0]

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing Nino. It's the most enjoyable rolling I've seen, on video or in person.

[CgarDan]

Thanks love these posts 

[guideright]

The work of an artisan. Amazing to think of the smallest movements and pressure developed over the years, a real artist.