Cigar of the Month:

The America is the newest entry from CAO into the premium cigar market is the America line of cigars. This joins their popular Brazilia and Italia lines in honoring a particular country. In this case, the Ozengers have chosen to highlight their new homeland by incorporating not one but two wrappers from the good ole US of A.

This full-bodied cigar gets  it "barber-pole" looks from a full leaf shade-grown Connecticut wrapper offset slightly with a darker Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro to create the pinstripe effect. The binder on this cigar hails from Brazil while, like so many other CAO cigars, the filler is a unique mix of tobaccos from Nicaragua, Italy, the Dominican Republic and the United States of America. Currently you'll find these cigars in 3 sizes in boxes of 20:

• Potomac - 5.00 inches x 56 ring gauge
• Monument - 6.25 inches x 54 ring gauge
• Landmark - 6.00 x 60 ring gauge