It’s the first time in decades a cigar brand owned by Perez-Carrillo is made with Cameroon tobacco
Cameroon wrapper is a prized leaf, one that’s used far less often than it was years ago. Ernesto Perez-Carrillo turned to Cameroon for his newest smoke, E.P. Carrillo Endure. It’s the first brand of his to be made with Cameroon since the 1970s, when he was working with his father.
“In the ’70s [Cameroon] was one of the few wrappers everyone had access to in Miami so my father used it for a few years until he started using Sumatra,” Perez-Carrillo tells Cigar Aficionado. Click to read article.