About this cigar
Intemperance VO 1920 is the fourth extension of RoMa Craft Tobac's Intemperance family, named for the Volstead Act that put Prohibition into law on January 17, 1920. RoMa Craft names the regular sizes after Prohibition Era figures: bootleggers, speakeasy operators and the agents who chased them. Roy Olmstead was the Seattle police lieutenant who ran one of the Pacific Northwest's largest bootlegging operations. His size is a 5 1/2 x 54 belicoso, 24 to the box. It was one of the regular sizes when VO 1920 launched in 2023; RoMa Craft's current list no longer shows it, so supply may be limited. The blend, as RoMa Craft lists it, is a dark Ecuadorian Sumatra hybrid wrapper (RoMa Craft calls it a Sumatra/Cameroon/Habano hybrid) over a Mexican San Andres binder, with a filler of ligero from Condega, corojo secos from Jalapa and the Dominican Republic, and a criollo viso from Pueblo Nuevo. It is made in Nicaragua at Fabrica de Tabacos Nica Sueno. RoMa Craft itself calls VO 1920 the lighter side of the Intemperance family, which makes it an easy recommendation for a customer who likes the RoMa Craft name but not the strength of its bigger blends.
