Carbonell

Tabacalera Altagracia
A tobacco company with 100 years of experience!

Gunther Schichl, is the mastermind behind the ""Tabacalera Altagracia", The Austrian Citizen, born in Linz. The world traveled cigar friend and aficionado lives now 3 years in the Dominican Republic, where he besides refreshing beach visits, also started intense working on his hobby cigars and the cultivation of tobacco. His hobby is, diving deeper into the complex world of tobacco. Beginning from seed to smoke and ashes specifically studied the cigars and the Dominican tobacco industry and developed to a Cigar specialist, and lover of the "Dominican Tabaceros Lifestyle" with all its culture elements and typical music. Now he lives outside of the major cities and tourist monopolies in the heart of his philosophy of life, surrounded by tobacco fields and tobacco dry houses in Villa Gonzalez, a small City between Santiago and Navarete.

The question, where is the famous Dominican top class tobacco? One of the World leaders before the 2 world wars, preoccupied him further However, in the search for the pure virgin, genetically untouched Tobacco led the way of life Günther Schichl, to Santiago de los Caballeros, capital of the tobacco in the Dominican Republic. After even more intensive research, he met with his future friends and partners, the "Carbonell Family. This meant a major step forward on its investigation. The patron (boss) Jorgi Carbonell, now 76 years old and his son Pablo Carbonell, is operating in "Villa Gonzalez" as a family business. ¨Tabacalera Carbonell", since 1894 has been dedicated exclusively to tobacco, its refinement, the preservation of the Pre-seed and its cultivation.

Günther Schichl, finally comes to his stated goal, he found the Archetype of the "Olor Dominicano" (Flavor Cigar) also called Criollo (natural) Dominicano, Demonstrated in the family since several generations discovered from the father of the patron "Jorgi Carbonell" in a special microclimate at the foot of the southern slope of the "Dominican Central Mountains" (Diego de Ocampo) in Vally of Cibao. In this special micro-climate area, is only where the thriving and growing tobacco for his cigars "Duarte", used as ¨Capote¨ and partially Tripa can be found.

On this day, the brand "Duarte" began to develop independently. Since then, this original tobacco is used exclusively as a framework for his cigars compositions. On hundreds of Acers in this special and the most appropriate microclimate, the Tabacalera Altagracia, now grow each year, their very own special tobacco. Taking into account traditional practices (full-bodied flavor and aroma), ¨Duarte Cigars¨ is extremely unbeatable! Moreover, the ¨Tabacalera Altagracia¨, and his partners has many years of experience in specializing with the production of "Flor de Carbonell".

The "Duarte" cigar Line honors the independence fighter and national hero "Juan Pablo Duarte y Diez" a 100% Dominican, which was born on Jan 26, 1813 in Santo Domingo. By proudly using only 100% Dominican tobacco, pure Dominican´s like Juan Pablo Duarte himself, clear the connection to the Dominican Hero.

The "Duarte" cigars covers the formats of: Robusto, Torpedo, Double Torpedo , Corona and Corona Gorda and will come up shortly with some new cigar compositions. In addition, ¨Tabacalera Altagracia¨, also prepares his cigars for the following brand names, such as, Tonini Laraborghini, “R&G”, “Route 66” and a lot of Premium Quality Customs Cigars.

100% Handmade and 100% Dominican

Our philosophy in the Tabacalera Altagracia