| With Patrice Hirschfeld:Does A Dark Wrapper | | | | contained in the green material can be |
| Mean A Strong Cigar?Maybe you have heard that | | | | complicated. The process has to be neither |
| the darker the wrapper, the stronger the | | | | too slow, nor too fast. The barn is checked |
| cigar. This is both true and not true. Let me | | | | several times every day and ventilation is |
| explain! It is true if the two cigars you | | | | adjusted according to the humidity inside the |
| compare are made from the same blend, have | | | | barn and the outside weather conditions. If |
| the same binder, and their wrapper has the | | | | necessary, heaters are used to help the |
| same origin.You may know that going from the | | | | drainage.Cigar Wrapper CharacteristicsTo be |
| bottom to the top of a tobacco plant, leaves | | | | acceptable as wrapper, tobacco leaves must be |
| become darker in color and stronger in taste. | | | | clean, evenly colored, shiny, elastic, solid |
| But things are not just that simple, and this | | | | but thin, with veins drowned into the |
| is another example. If you compare a slim | | | | parenchyma, large and without holes. And last |
| panatela and a Churchill, both with the same | | | | but not least, they must burn properly, |
| components and exactly the same wrapper, I | | | | giving ashes as white as possible. Easy, you |
| bet you will find the slim panatela stronger | | | | think? No, it's a headache to grow and |
| than the Churchill. It is not true when the | | | | process wrapper leaves! It's difficult to |
| two cigars have different blends and binders, | | | | imagine how many people have sweated before |
| or the two wrappers are not of the same | | | | you finally smoke your premium cigar.Is An |
| origin. For example, rolled on the same | | | | Open Air Or Shade Grown Wrapper |
| bunch, a light brown, Cuban seed wrapper will | | | | Better?Traditionally, tobacco grows in open |
| be stronger than an oily, dark brown, | | | | air fields. Wrapper tobacco is a fragile |
| Cameroon wrapper. If you like mild or medium | | | | material. At the end, it has to be perfect. |
| cigars don't be afraid of Maduros: these | | | | Strong direct sun radiation can deteriorate |
| black wrappers are generally mild and | | | | the result. To avoid the risk, fields can be |
| sometimes sweet, compared with some brown | | | | covered with cloths fixed on poles, providing |
| ones.Growing Wrapper Leaf.A wrapper grower | | | | an artificial shade. This process, together |
| has a dream : to get perfect leaves to | | | | with irrigation, allows to grower to keep the |
| produce a Premium Wrapper. As soon as he | | | | growing conditions under control. In some |
| starts the operation, the dream becomes a | | | | equatorial countries, thanks to a naturally |
| nightmare: weather conditions, insects, | | | | cloudy sky, this expensive equipment is not |
| fungus, viruses, and all kinds of parasites | | | | necessary.John Payne is the Publisher of Web |
| are here, ready to destroy his hopes. From | | | | Marketing Ezine, and the Founder of |
| the time he starts setting the seed beds | | | | Enviro-Friendly Products.Patrice Hirschfeld |
| until the moment he picks the last leaf, it | | | | has spent a lifetime in Tobacco, and is the |
| is a permanent struggle.Curing WrappersOnce | | | | Proprietor of the Online Cigar Shop- Voila |
| properly picked, wrapper leaves are hung up | | | | Cigars. John provides Marketing Consultancy |
| the same day in a curing barn for drying. | | | | to Voila Cigars. |
| Draining out the huge quantity of water | | | | |