Originally published in the December issue of Robb Report as “Gift Wrappers (and Fillers and Binders): Muscle Cigars”

Camacho American Barrel-Aged 
Camacho has put a U.S. spin on the old Cuban cigar-making technique of maturing tobacco in rum barrels. The company has aged 6-year-old Honduran Corojo filler leaves in Kentucky bourbon barrels. After five months of maturation, those leaves were combined with Connecticut and Pennsylvania broadleaf maduro tobaccos and paired with a Connecticut broadleaf wr…