Training kit, a tool to make your own cigar tasting at home

To find out how to enjoy smoking a cigar, learning is the best way. Just like in wine or rum tastings, for example, there are tastings meant for savoring and tastings meant to turn you into an expert when it comes to defining the characteristics of a cigar. They serve to learn how to the detect the types of tobacco, the aromas and flavors it releases, or even if it has been rolled properly or there’s a manufacturing fault.

But attending a training class is not always easy, due to lack of time or because it’s not easy to access this type of training course. La Aurora Cigars has design a Training kit, a tool –used in tasting events or in cigar presentations, for example– that allows you to have your own tasting without traveling to a special location, and to understand how the blends are prepared, in order to become an expert.

At first, this training tool for new consumers was created for the tasting of La Aurora 1903 Doble Figurado Emerald (Preferidos). This first model of the Training kit consisted of four pure grade cigars, a multiwrapper cigar, one La Aurora 1903 Doble Figurado Emerald, an instruction booklet and a DVD with tips to optimize smoking, a lighter and a cutter “to allow smokers to perform their own cigar tasting event, without the presence of a brand representative”, as summed up by the President of La Aurora himself, Guillermo León.

La Aurora 1903 Doble Figurado Emerald is a cigar with a tobacco wrapper from Sumatra seed harvested in Ecuador and binding leaf from Valle del Cibao (Dominican Republic) and filler also from Valle del Cibao, with tobacco from Brazil and Ecuador. Later editions of this tool have been released with La Aurora 107 and La Aurora ADN Dominicano cigars. The first one is a cigar with a wrapper of tobacco from Sumatra harvested in Ecuador, binding leaf from Valle del Cibao (Dominican Republic) and filler from Valle del Cibao (Dominican Republic), Brazil, Nicaragua and Peru.

Finally, La Aurora ADN Dominicano has a tobacco wrapper from Valle del Cibao (Dominican Republic), binding leaf from Cameroon (Africa) and filler from Valle del Cibao (Dominican Republic), Pennsylvania (United States), Nicaragua and tobacco originated in the Andullo process. The most interesting aspect in this case is being able to taste a pure grade from the Andullo, given the aroma and the strength provided by this method.

16 thoughts on “Training kit, a tool to make your own cigar tasting at home

    • La Aurora Cigars says:

      Hello.
      Our Training Kit is a training tool that we use in our courses and events. Some of our distributors in different countries acquire it for sale. If you tell us where you are from, we can put you in touch with the distributor in your country.
      Thank you for your interest

    • La Aurora Cigars says:

      Hello.
      Our Training Kit is a training tool that we use in our courses and events. Some of our distributors in different countries acquire it for sale. If you tell us where you are from, we can put you in touch with the distributor in your country.
      Thank you for your interest

  1. Simon Sutcliffe says:

    I am currently enjoying the ADN training kit, which is fantastic, could you please let me know what tobaccos are in each of the samples. I have smoked samples 1 to 3 and would like to know what is in each.

    Great kit, highly recommended.

    • La Aurora Cigars says:

      Hello.
      Our Training Kit is a training tool that we use in our courses and events. Some of our distributors in different countries acquire it for sale. If you tell us where you are from, we can put you in touch with the distributor in your country.
      Thank you for your interest

  2. Demetrios says:

    Greetings,
    I have purchased a training kit that was on display and opened in my country, and later I went home to examine the contents online so I can use the kit. Searching online I found your video commercial that it should come with a DVD and leaflet with instructions. At some point I assume the two pieces were taken out and lost. How can I get the DVD and leaflet to use the kit properly? can you provide me with a digital copy? Thank you!

    • La Aurora Cigars says:

      Dear Demetrios,

      Thank you very much for your interest in us and our products. You should return to the shop where you purchased it and have the shop provide you with the tasting DVD that your Training Kit is missing. From which country are you writing to us?

      Best regards
      La Aurora Cigars

  3. Angela Townsend says:

    I live close to Chicago Illinois USA. Are these kits still being sold? I would love to purchase one.
    Thank you

    • La Aurora Cigars says:

      Hello, thank you very much for your interest in our brand and for contacting us. You can consult with our distributor in USA: CS@LAAURORA.COM
      If you have any other questions we are at your service.
      Have a nice day
      La Aurora Cigars

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