WRAPPER OR CAPPA (using tobacco plant called Corojo)
The outside leaf that dictates the cigar’s appearance.
- The quality of the wrapper is crucial/important in any cigar and, generally, can account for anything up to 70% of the tobacco by value, while being only 10% by weight.
- A good wrapper should have flavour and steady-burning qualities. A smoker examines a cigar for appealing appearance, texture and aroma. This is where a good wrapper justifies its high cost. If the wrapper is not smooth, silky, oily and does not have an appealing aroma, the smoker will reject it and the sale will be lost.
- Wrapper must be elastic and without coarse veins. They have to mature for at least 12 to 18 month or even more to have a very good quality.
- Wrapper are come from Cuba, Cameroon, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua or Sumatra Indonesia.
The wrapper leaf is very special. It is grown in a different manner to other leaves. The plant is protected under muslin cloth, to protect from the sunlight so that a soft, silky appearance is achieved. The microclimate on the different plantations produces a variety of different colors of wrapper leaves, which effect their ultimate flavour.
BINDER OR CAPOTE (using tobacco plant called Criollo)
The tobacco leaf that holds the filler in place.
- This binder leaf encloses the filler and gives the cigar its proper shape and size.
- Leaves used for this purpose usually have the tensile strength to hold the together. In many case the binder is selected almost entirely for its physical properties and may have indifferent smoking qualities.
The binder is usually made of two leaves of similar character to The Volado, from the bottom of the plant with little flavour.
FILLER OR TRIPA (using tobacco plant called Criollo)
The tobacco that makes up the hearth of cigar and give different taste.
- The most aromatic part of cigar is the filler and, in the case of hand-made cigars, usually it is strips of tobacco cut to the length of the cigar, known as long leaf.
- Short leaf indicates smaller, cut-up pieces normally used for machine-made cigars. • Long leaf is more expensive and, therefore, kept for premium (high-grade) cigars, although many excellent cigars are made from short filler.
- The filler normally consists of a blend two to four different styles of leaves, depending on the diameter (or ring gauge). Blends provide variation in taste, aromas, and characteristics for differing brands. To maintain a consistent house style, blends of tobacco from different harvests and plantation are used, thus requiring a large stock-holding of mature leaf.
- Some full-bodied leaves need to mature for two or three years.
Short Leaf Filler
- Short leaf or called “Chopped” filler is small, chopped-up pieces, similar in appearance to that found in cigarettes. This method is often in the better grades of Dutch-type cigars, such as La Paz.
- In-expensive cigars often use “scrap” filler, the left-over from all above styles.
- Mostly made by machined or called Machine-Made cigars.
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