Made with two American-grown wrappers, CAO America pays homage to our homeland.  Combining Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro and Connecticut Shade wrappers in a truly eye-catching “pinstripe” effect.  CAO America features a full-flavored taste profile that is as rich and bold as the legacy of our beloved country.

    CAO Brazilia utilizes the most outstanding crop of beautiful, rich, brown wrappers from Brazil.  They are aged to perfection and allowed to marry with rich but smooth Nicaraguan fillers.  Large ring gauges were selected for the connoisseur who cravers a wide screen breadth of flavor.

    The Criollo seed is rich in the history of cigar making.  Originating in Cube, ‘Criollo’ simply means ‘native seed.’  Throughout Cuban cigar making, every spliced or hybrid seed continually developed in order to combat diseases.  The CAO Criollo is a marriage of Cube and Nicaragua, with a flavor reminiscent of a bygone era and representing the beginning of a new one.

    CAO CX2 (Cameroon times two) is the first cigar ever to incorporate two Cameroon wrapper leaves in one blend.  Cameroon wrapper is heralded as among the most flavorful and highest valued wrapper leaf on the planet.  The external wrapper in aged Grade One Cameroon.  The second wrapper, used as a binder, is also Cameroon leaf.  The filler is a sweet and earthy blend of tobaccos from the Jalapa region of Nicaragua and Colombia.

    Introduced in 1996, the CAO Gold has received some of the highest ratings in the industry, including two ‘90’ ratings.  Recently, the CAO Gold Corona was awarded a ‘90’ rating for Cigar Aficionado, making it the second highest rated non-Cuban corona in the world.

    Italy has been widely heralded as the producer of some of the world’s finest wines and olive oils; however, is has been largely overlooked as a source of premium cigar tobacco – UNTIL NOW!  Grown exclusively for CAO, the Italian Habano seed used for CAO Italia was originally brought to Italy from Cuba some 40+ years ago.  The Habano seed is grown in the Benevento region of the southern portion of Italy, located between Rome and Naples.

    CAO LX2 (Ligero times two) is the third and final installment to the CAO "X2" trilogy. This ligero-heave powerhouse possesses a full-bodies flavor profile and was inspired by tobacco grown on the 140-acre "Pueblo Nuevo" farm located just outside of Condega, Nicaragua. CAO LX2 features a sungrown Nicaragua wrapper, Honduran binder, and two different ligero fillers from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. CAO LX2 boasts a bold, muscular structure but also shows flavors of bittersweet chocolate, paprika, and woody tabacco notes that fan out superbly on the plate.