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The
wrapper must be supple so it doesn't split as the cigar is rolled.
It is also an important contributor to the cigar's flavor and appearance.
Ideally, a wrapper leaf should be of consistent color and have no
prominent veins or blemishes. Because wrapper leaves must meet so
many requirements, they are carefully grown, aged and selected.
Wrappers come in many varieties and some of the most important recent
advances in cigars have been innovative wrappers. Here are a few
of the types of wrappers you'll want to experience:
CONNECTICUT SHADE: This wrapper
leaf descends from the Hazelwood strain of Cuban Seed. Its distinctive
golden color is attained by growing it in the shade of huge tents
in the Connecticut River Valley.
CONNECTICUT BROADLEAF: Also
from the Connecticut River Valley, this leaf is grown in the sun,
which results in a coarser, darker, sweeter wrapper.
HABANA 2000™: is an exciting
new wrapper made from Cuban Seed tobacco grown in Nicaragua.
MADURO: A shade of wrapper
varying from a very dark brown to almost black. The color results
from longer exposure to the sun, a cooking process or longer fermentation.
Mexican wrapper leaves are often used as Maduro wrappers.
TBN: Shade-grown in Indonesia
and carefully fermented, this dark wrapper was created by marrying
special strains of Java with Connecticut tobacco.
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