Black Gold: Connecticut Shade Cigar Tobacco Grown in Kentucky
August 24th, 2006
Think that the only place in the United States where good cigar tobacco can be grown is Connecticut?
If so, you are mistaken.
Deep in the Bluegrass State, in an area more known for thoroughbred horses and fine bourbon, something unusual is happening. Some fine cigar wrapper tobacco is being grown because of the vision and efforts of Mark Barrow, a man who decided to try something no one else had tried.
“I think Kentucky’s heritage is tobacco, bourbon and fast horses, and I want to keep all three of them going,” said Barrow.
Mark Barrow is not just a visionary. He is a visionary who has succeeded.
The story continues after the jump.
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