Maquette

The CRAFT Maquette Series lets consumers explore RoMa Craft’s blending process by sampling new blends before they are finalized for regular production.

A maquette, also known as a bozzetto, is an object made as a preparatory study for a full-scale project. Artists use maquettes to explore shapes and figural poses of sculptures.

Architects use maquettes as an essential part of the iterative design process, developing ideas from a sketch into a physical object, to inform decisions involving materials, space and form without consuming the time and resources larger scale proofs require.

The use of maquettes to realize a concept allows the creator to evaluate and develop those ideas more efficiently. In many ways, blending samples serve the same purpose for a cigar maker.

As a new cigar blend evolves from an idea into large scale production core line it goes through many iterations. Individual tobaccos are selected, purchased and sampled. They are evaluated and classified based on flavor, aroma, combustion and other physical characteristics.

These tobaccos are blended with other tobaccos and, once again, the combined tobaccos are evaluated to determine how these individual tobaccos perform together. Once a blend concept is realized it is produced in small quantities and allowed to dry in an aging room.

Many times, as humidity variances inherent in the cigar making process begin to normalize and the tobaccos begin to marry, new flavors, aromas and other attributes develop in the blend.

CRAFT Maquette represents an exploration of that practice. Small batch releases with new and unique tobaccos blended and aged for you to join us in our blend evaluation and discovery process.