Eleven Enlightening Facts About Padrón

[El Presidente]

Good Article 

 

Eleven Enlightening Facts About Padrón

 

[ha_banos]

mmm "Padrón doesn’t age its cigars after rolling. They are pressed, banded, boxed and shipped"

Tobacco is wet before its rolled to make it supple again right? Always? So Padron ships wet cigars? Wonder at what humidity? And how long they have to sit to acclimatise back to desired humidity? 

[jakebarnes]

I always liked the Anni series for the cigar smoking well with larger ring gauges but pressed in such a manner that makes it feel like a smaller ring gauge. 

[SCgarman]

With the over inflated prices of the Habanos lineup, these 1926, 1964, and even plain Jane Padron cigars seem like a bargain nowadays. Their consistency in construction and flavor profile shows the dedication towards selling a quality cigar. I love all the 1964's personally.

[Ford2112]

The 1964s in the larger ring guages are damn Skippy good cigars

[TR]

Padron Anny (both 64 and 26) and Ashton VSG are my favorite NCs.  Now, Nudies are climbing the list to favorite status.

 

[Low]

2 hours ago, SCgarman said:

even plain Jane Padron cigars seem like a bargain nowadays. 

I'm sure you've heard this before, but the x000 series maduros age beautifully. After 5 years they settle into an almost perfect medium bodied smoke, and at that point I actually prefer them over both of the anniversary lines.

[Fugu]

On 8/4/2023 at 2:04 AM, ha_banos said:

mmm "Padrón doesn’t age its cigars after rolling. They are pressed, banded, boxed and shipped"

Tobacco is wet before its rolled to make it supple again right? Always? So Padron ships wet cigars? Wonder at what humidity? And how long they have to sit to acclimatise back to desired humidity? 

I guess we can take it that that does include the escaparate step. Which, in the sense of the term and practically, isn’t an ageing procedure, but - quite as you are alluding to - a four to eight weeks period of rest so as to allow cigars shed excessive moisture from rolling. Other than that … no ageing, obviously.

 

"Padrón Is The Reason So Many Cigars Are Box Pressed…
The Padróns didn’t invent box pressing, but they sure normalized it. Before the 1994 debut of the Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series, most cigars on the market were round. “We didn’t invent the box press,” Jorge Padrón has said, “but we certainly brought it back.” These squared-off beauties ignited a box-pressed trend that burns strong to this day."

Sheesh..., Padrons aren’t “box”-pressed. They are ‘pre-pressed’ (dare we say mock-pressed ). Sticks are already rectangular when they go into their box. In fact, I am not aware of any other producer/region that still does a real box-pressing other than Cuba.

[Mr. Japan]

I hate box pressed cigars, even if I have to say I smoked good Padron cigar. Because good tobacco.

[SCgarman]

1 hour ago, Mr. Japan said:

I hate box pressed cigars, even if I have to say I smoked good Padron cigar. Because good tobacco.

Not all Padrons are square-ish shaped. They have round cigars too FYI

[Wookie]

My problem with Padron is that the 1926, 1964 and all the special anniversary cigars taste the same to me.  It’s a pleasant charcoal flavor but I swear they are all the same.