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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.
Long filler cigars are a far higher quality of cigar, using long leaves throughout. These cigars also use a third variety of tobacco leaf, called a "binder", between the filler and the outer wrapper. This permits the makers to use more delicate and attractive leaves as a wrapper. These high-quality cigars almost always blend varieties of tobacco.
Joya de Nicaragua is known for making Nicaraguan puros — cigars that make use of binders, fillers, and wrappers from that country only. [citation needed] The brand is distributed in the United States by Drew Estate, a country which in 2009 accounted for approximately 45% of the company's global sales. [2]
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 flavored Toscanello cigars use a filler blend of Italian, South American, and Far East Kentucky tobacco. [5] Unlike Caribbean cigars, where a binder is rolled around the filler tobacco before the wrapper tobacco covers it over, the Toscano cigar is made by rolling the filler tobacco with only the wrapper tobacco (without any binder).
Fuente Fuente Opus X Logo. Fuente Fuente OpusX is the premier cigar line in the Arturo Fuente Cigar family. [1] [2] Made by Tabacalera A. Fuente, this cigar is consistently ranked as the single most sought-after cigar in the world by Cigar Aficionado and the line is held by many to be the greatest cigar in history to date. [3]
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 ...
The filler, binder, and wrapper may come from different areas of the island, though much is produced in Pinar del Río province, in the regions of Vuelta Abajo and Semi Vuelta, as well as in farms in the Viñales region. [2] All cigar production in Cuba is controlled by state-owned Cubatabaco. The Cuban cigar is also referred to as El Habano. [3]