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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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]
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]
Cigar industry veteran Lew Rothman later recalled that "Because there was only a finite number of potential customers and a fairly predictable demand for premium cigars, the quantity of tobacco planted to supply that demand, and the price for those wrappers, binders, and filler leaves, remained very constant throughout the 1980s and into the ...
Cigar bands on the products of La Flor Dominicana and Oliva Cigar Company touting a high ligero leaf content.. Ligero (pronounced "lee-HAIR-oh") is a type of tobacco leaf found near the top of each tobacco plant.