Different tobacco leaf types used in creating cigars
Some rudimentary information about a cigar is that it is made of filler, binders and wrapper. Let us highlight the different parts of a tobacco plant by marking each part with what it is called and see in detail which part of the tobacco plant is used in which section of a premium cigar. There are some cigars that contain all the leaf types in it just like the cohiba siglo ii cigar . Most significant fact about those special shade grown tapado leaves used for cigar wrapping is - the lower leaves supply lighter wrapper colour and the top most leaves provide dark wrapper colour. The Ligero leaf can construct a cigar with a great body which is very aromatic. The Viso leaf makes a low bodied cigars with little elasticity and medium aroma while Seco helps build a medium bodied cigar medium elasticity adding medium amount of aroma to it whereas A cigar containing the Volado leaf should have a very fine body and elasticity hindering low aroma but good taste. Lets learn in detail about th...