How Cigar is Made

28 May 2023

How Cigar is Made

Cigar made by three types:

  1. Totally hand-made or totalmente a mano or premium cigar or long filler cigar
  2. Machine-bunched, hand finished
  3. Machine-made cigar or mass-market cigar or short filler cigar

Mass-market cigar used the tobaccos called “HTL or homogenized tobacco leaf, made from tobacco stems, fibres, mixed with water and cellulose. Not unlike paper. Usually for binder and wrapper. They also added coloring to the wrapper, sometimes they make an aromatics wrapper or binder. Machine-made also notable make premium cigar (still inexpensive) such as La Paz. Small cigar usually machine-made.

1From seedling to harvesting
90 days
2Harvesting period
7 days
3Drying and initial fermentation
60 days
4The selection and second fermentation
90 days
5The third fermentation, aging & blending
up to 2 years
6Rolling and final stage
360 days

And ready to ship over the world.  Sometimes the selected brand, such as vintage cigars need more time to be matured.


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