Nestor Plasencia, the wily "old pro" of Central America's tobacco industry, has secured a supply of Costa Rican Maduro. It is there they have perfected a way to cure the Maduro to bring out the most in its special characteristics that smokers so enjoy. Plasencia makes the manufacture of Nero Extra a labor of love as he double cures the Maduro and succeeds in producing a cigar of surpassing beauty. It is uniformly dark and burns slowly, producing a silvery ash that marks it as the work of a master, a cigar for the purist.