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Ecuadorian Sumatra Tobacco (sometimes spelled Ecuadoran or Ecuadorean) is a tobacco grown in Quevedo, a fertile sub-tropical region in Los Ríos Province, Ecuador, and is used primarily as a wrapper for premium cigars.
A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves made to be smoked. [1] Cigars are produced in a variety of sizes and shapes. Since the 20th century, almost all cigars are made of three distinct components: the filler, the binder leaf which holds the filler together, and a wrapper leaf, which is often the highest quality leaf used.
Area farmers grew tobacco for the two outside layers of cigars, the binder and the wrapper. By the 1830s, tobacco farmers were experimenting with different seeds and processing techniques. [3] Knowing that they were not the only players in the cigar wrapper economy, farmers began planting a new tobacco species in 1875, the Havana Seed.
Habano cigar wrapper is a leaf grown from a Cuban seed, hence the word Habano or Havano, referring to Cuba's capital. Habano tobacco wrapper is darker in color, has a much spicier flavor and a richer aroma, and has been grown in Nicaragua's Jalapa Valley and Estelí since the 1990s. [7]
This is an alphabetical list of cigar brands. Included is information about the company owning the brand name as well as a column allowing easy viewing of the source of that information. Included is information about the company owning the brand name as well as a column allowing easy viewing of the source of that information.
White Owl is a brand of machine-produced cigars. [1] The logo consists of a snowy owl perched on a cigar. The brand is owned by Swedish Match and was formerly owned by General Cigar Company. As of 2011, White Owl cigars that are imported into Australia are produced in the Dominican Republic under the direction of an Owensboro, Kentucky, company ...
The company has a line of extra large cigar wraps named Juicy Wraps Super Wrap, each box features a cone-shaped cigar wrapper around a plastic tube inside of a foil wrapper. In addition to these products, Juicy Jay's also produces a new line called Juicy Jay's Natural Leaf Wraps, which are natural tobacco leaf wraps that come in packages of ...
Altadis began manufacturing of a new Gispert cigar in Honduras in 2003 to reintroduce the historic Cuban brand. It is made in two versions at the La Flor de Copan Cigar Factory in Honduras, with either an Ecuador-grown Connecticut-seed wrapper or a maduro wrapper from San Andrés, Mexico, and a blend of Honduran and Nicaraguan filler tobacco.