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Laura Chavin
Cigars - a Man's Vision
Turned into Reality
 Helmut
Buehrle, the father and creator
of the
Laura Chavin calls
himself a “positively crazy
person”. His vision to create a
hand-rolled premium cigar
 which
would be ranked along side the
great brands of Cuba and the
Dominican Republic, was more
than fulfilled after ten “crazy”
years of hard work.
Laura Chavin
counts, together with
Partagas,
Cohiba,
Montecristo,
Macanudo,
H. Upmann
and Davidoff,
to the best cigars in the world.
Helmut Buehrle also followed an
unorthodox path when naming his
cigar label and the professional
world responded with much
head-shaking. A woman’s name for
a cigar?! Why not!
Chavin
(pronounced Schaveen) is the
name of Helmut Buehrle’s
daughter and also the second
name of his mother. The origin
of this unusual name, which all
the women on the matriarchal
side carry, is shrouded in
mystery. Whether a name from an
Inca tribe, or perhaps from
Chavva, the Hebrew name for Eva,
of from Chawer, a rabbinian
title of honor...?
 "A
cigar speaks the truth about the
conscientiousness of all it
meets.” Conscientiousness, which
rises from the love of cigars.
It prevails on the plantations
in the humid valleys of the
Dominican Republic, where the
Olor and
Piloto Cubano tobaccos
grow to be used as fillers, and
prevails in the San Andres
Valley (pictured at left) in
Mexico, where the binder is
grown, and in Connecticut, where
the
Connecticut Shade grows in
the shadow of muslin cloth to
become the wrapper.
Laura Chavin
speaks the truth about the
Dominican Republic’s tobacco
factory José Mendez, which is
managed by a friend of Buehrle’s,
the “positively crazy” Siegfried Maruschke, it speaks the truth
about the Tabacalera de Garcia
in La Romana, where the
Dominican version of the
Montecristo is rolled, and last
but not least, about Helmut
Buehrle himself. The light,
elegant and very aromatic cigars
of
Laura Chavin carry the
numbers
11,
22,
33,
44,
55,
66,
77,
88,
99. Those of the
stronger
Pur Sang (pure blood)
series are called
Pur Sang I,
Pur Sang II,
Pur Sang III, and
Pur Sang IV. In addition, the
likewise potent
Concours des Meilleurs Connoiseurs should
also be mentioned. The
Terre de Mythe series
launched late in 2005 is not
sold by DonCigarro until the
origin of the tobaccos used
therin are not completely clear.
Copyright © by DonCigarro,
CH-8702 Zollikon
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