The Ultimate Cigar Guide

These leaves, also known as Connecticut wrappers, are usually light tan or yellow in color, grown and aged under gauze or cheesecloth to limit sunlight, giving them a mild flavor that allows the flavor of the binder and the filler to come through more fully.question go to app settings and press "Manage Questions" button.

Also known as Double Claro, these leaves have a light, sweet taste, and they are picked before they have fully matured and aged for a comparatively short time, allowing them to retain some chlorophyll that gives these wrappers a pale green tinge.

A prolonged fermentation and aging period over the course of several years gives these leaves a dark brown color and a characteristic sweetness; the longer the leaves are aged, the more pronounced the natural sugars in the leaves become.

Sometimes referred to as Double Maduro, these are the darkest leaves in the lineup of cigar wrappers. They are aged for even longer than Maduro leaves, deepening their inherent sweetness and building a richer, deeper flavor profile.

Originally grown in Cuba, the fertile soil of Honduras now supplies the American market with these medium brown tobacco leaves, which have a slightly spicy flavor reminiscent of black pepper.

Grown from Cuban seed in Nicaraguan soil, these wrappers are even spicier than the Corojo wrappers, with one of the strongest flavor profiles. Cigars wrapped with these leaves are generally best enjoyed by experienced cigar smokers, as beginners will likely find them too strong as an introduction.

These leaves are the original tobacco used to roll cigars and were once the most popular leaf used to roll Cuban cigars, though fell from popularity due to the rise of Corojo and Habano wrappers. Their flavor combines a hint of sweetness with some of the peppery spice present in Corojo wrappers.

The reddish-brown hue of these wrappers is distinctive to tobacco plants grown in Cuban soil, making them some of the rarest cigar wrappers available. These wrappers are quite spicy and often have an almost earthy flavor.

These sweet, mild leaves originate from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and they are often used in infused cigars as their mildness enhances the added flavors in the binder and filler.

Grown in both Cameroon and the Central African Republic, these wrappers are among the most delicate leaves and brittle leaves, with fewer oils present to give them elasticity. Their rich, smooth taste is as distinctive as the raised bumps in the grain of their leaves, described as "toothy."