If you’ve smoked a good variety of cigars, you’ll eventually have discovered a difference between wrapper types. Besides being just pretty packaging, that thin outer leaf can account for 60% of your ...

A medium-mild cigar, the Quesada Reserva Privada features Dominican Republic San Vicente tobacco that began aging in 1997. The San Vicente leaf is used for the binder and mixed with Pennsylvania ...

THE Tobacco Research Board (TRB) is in the process of developing a new hybrid of cigar wrappers as it seeks to boost the golden leaf industry. TRB’s head of plant breeding division Frank Magama told ...

Homogenized Tobacco Leaf (HTL) is a paper-like material produced from finely ground tobacco. The inner and outer envelopes of machine-made cigars (termed binder and wrapper, respectively) often ...

Like many Cuban natives, the late Jose O. Padrón fled Cuba during the 1960s and settled in Miami. With just $600, he started his eponymous cigar company, hiring one employee who rolled cigars by day, ...

NEW PROVIDENCE, Pa. — The color difference in Matt Hess’ drying tobacco is immediately obvious. The leaves in one barn are a field-fresh green, while in another curing shed, the leaves have already ...

Among the Spanish-rich language of cigars — from figurado to puro — one word stands out: Connecticut. No doubt you’ll see it if you peruse your local store’s walk-in humidor. The Connecticut wrapper ...