How’s a Premium Cigar Made?

Premium cigars are still hand-made. An experienced cigar-roller can produce lots of excellent, virtually matching, cigars each day. The rollers keep the tobacco moist especially the wrapper and use specially designed crescent-shaped knives, called chavetas, to form the filler and wrapper leaves quickly and precisely. Once rolled, the cigars are kept in wooden forms as they dry, in which their uncapped ends are cut to a uniform size. From this stage, the cigar is a complete product that may be “laid down” and aged for decades if kept as near to 21C ( 70F ), and 70% relative humidity, as the environment will permit. Once cigars have been acquired, proper storage is mostly accomplished by keeping the cigars in a specialized wooden box, or humidor, where conditions can be thoroughly controlled for long amounts of time. Even if a cigar dries, it can be successfully re-humidified as long as it hasn’t been handled carelessly and done so steadily.  Loss of original tobacco oils will seriously affect the taste.

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