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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.
The first fully-African cigar brand, made in Mozambique using African tobacco. "Bongani" means "Be Grateful" in the Zulu language. [11] [12] Cabaiguan: owned by Tatuaje Cigars, Inc. in consultation with Jaime Garcia, the son of José "Pepin" Garcia Cain Oliva Cigar Co. handcrafted by the Oliva Cigar Company in Nicaragua Camacho: Oettinger ...
The Thermonuclear, a Triple Ligero, was a 'fun experiment' not generally offered for sale due to its strength, as the name implies. Cabaiguan is a line of Connecticut-wrapper cigars, similar in packaging to the core Tatuaje line but not so branded, since it is not all-Nicaraguan. Fausto is a line of very full-bodied cigars using Habano wrappers.
Successful leaf growth of Kenbano in Kentucky soil. Corojo is a type of tobacco, primarily used in the making of wrappers for cigars.The variety was originally grown in the Vuelta Abajo region of Cuba but is today grown exclusively in the Jamastran valley of Honduras and in the United States in Western Kentucky.
Criollo is a type of tobacco, primarily used in the making of cigars. It was, by most accounts, one of the original Cuban tobaccos that emerged around the time of Columbus . The term means native seed , and thus a tobacco variety using the term, such as Dominican Criollo , may or may not have anything to do with the original Cuban seed nor the ...
It typically has a dark brown (rather than the traditional white) wrapper and is typically 120 mm (4.7 in) in length. The More brand does, however, produce shorter versions with the typical white wrapper and white or cork filters. [2] Bridging the gap between cigars and cigarettes, More was the first successful 120 mm cigarette.