Nestor Plasencia, a hug player in Central America's tobacco industry, has embarked on a supply of Costa Rican Maduro. Thisregion has perfected a way to cure the Maduro to bring out its best characteristics that smokers praise. Plasencia proclaims the crafting of Nero Extra a labor of love as he double cures the Maduro and produces a beauty of a smoke. With a dark hue and a cherry that crawls slowly, a silvery ash remains that signals the work of a master, a cigar for the purist.