It’s all in the wrapper and binding

by Trevor Wallace

It is the gentle giant that holds everything inside that delicious cigars of your together. The binder is the blanket that comforts the sweet Cuban tobacco. Yes it might not appear as polished as the wrapper of your cigar. The wrapper is what you touching with your fingers while your are smoking your Cuban cigars.

It amazes me when people ask me can I roll my own Cuban cigars? I usually tell them of course you can, and while you are at it might as well build a jumbo jet and go on a world tour. You see, Cuban cigars are so complex and the more you learn about them, the details will simply blow you away.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but only true Cuban cigar aficionados like you and I know how amazing Cuban cigars truly are. The binder is not bunch of ropes or microscopic threads situated in the middle of the Cuban cigar. The binder is also a half of the single leaf. Most people think that the binder is just another material but no not at all.

No wonder that growing the wrapper is the hardest part and process in the Cuban cigar construction. Everything else is hard too but when it comes to creating the finest most perfect wrapper, it takes the longest. Cuban cigar construction is complex, it’s not something you can roll by yourself.

If the Cuban cigar wrapper is flawed, the whole Cuban cigar is considered a bad cigar. Each Cuban cigar model has it’s own science behind the wrapper they construct and use for their Cuban cigars. Let us consider ourselves grateful that we are living in a time where we can enjoy Cuban cigars and the beauty it represents.









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