The Anatomy of a Cigar

Cigar rollers hands wrapping a bundle of long-filler tobacco leaves in a binder leaf to form the bunch, the structural heart of a hand-rolled cigar

A cigar is a small piece of agricultural engineering wrapped in a leaf. Knowing the parts of one is not a test anyone makes you sit, but the names give you a vocabulary for what you are tasting, what is going right, and what is going wrong. This is the short tour. The wrapper, the […]