Cigars by wrapper
The wrapper is the leaf you see and the one you taste first. Here's what each one is, lightest to darkest, and every cigar I've reviewed in it.
- CandelaThe green wrapper: leaf heat-cured in about three days so it keeps its chlorophyll.No reviews yet
- ConnecticutShade-grown, golden and mild: the classic light wrapper, from Connecticut or from Connecticut seed in Ecuador.No reviews yet
- CameroonThin, toothy leaf from central Africa, grown from Sumatra seed, with sweet spice and a gingerbread color.1 cigar reviewed
- SumatraNamed for the Indonesian island and at its best in Ecuador. Cinnamon, earth and a light sweetness.No reviews yet
- CorojoCuba's prized wrapper of the mid-1900s, retired there in the late 1990s and still grown in Honduras.1 cigar reviewed
- CriolloCuba's native seed, long used as filler, now a sweet to savory wrapper from Nicaragua and Honduras.No reviews yet
- HabanoCuban-seed wrapper grown outside Cuba, especially in Ecuador and Nicaragua. Spicy, rich, often chocolaty.No reviews yet
- San AndrésMexico's dark, stalk-cut wrapper from Veracruz and one of the two classic maduro leaves.No reviews yet
- BroadleafSun-grown, wide-leafed tobacco from Connecticut and Pennsylvania, prized for dark maduro wrappers.No reviews yet
- MaduroA dark color and the long fermentation behind it. Several different leaves can end up maduro.No reviews yet