So the Aniversario isn't the stalk cut and cured sun grown habano but rather just sun grown and obtained by traditional method?
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The process of growing in the sun or shade, how the tobacco is harvested, and the curing and fermenting process used are three different things.
Yes habano sun grown and sun grown maduro wrappers are from the same plant, both grown in the sun, both stalk cut (as is the broadleaf tobacco used in the LP9 as well)
As a general rule, in conneticut, both habano (T52 wrapper) and broadleaf (LP9 wrapper) tobacco are stalk cut, and air cured in the barn. Both are grown in the sun.
The fermentation part of the curing process comes after the leaves are harvested and hung in a barn to air cure. While fermentation usually happens in a pilon, some factories do cook, paint or dye their tovacco leaves to make them maduro.
The same leaf from the same plant will smoke, taste and be a different blend if one cigar leaves the wrapper leaf natural and the other the wrapper leaf is fermented differently (or otherwise) made maduro. All tobacco goes through a fermentation process to release the ammonia and other gases. How that process happens, the temp, moisture, length of time, etc impact the final leaf.
There are lengthy threads here about how leaves are made to be maduro, and the difference that makes in the flavor of cigars. Both in strength and sweetness.
Having smoked both, the sun grown habano natural on the liga anniversario does smoke very different than the maduro sun grown habano on the T52.
All of that said, it's all just dried, dead, rolled up leaf. Everything else is just pomp and circumstance.
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