Cigar
See also: Cigar (homonymy)
A cigar is a formed cylinder of a sheet of Tabac rolled up in spiral on other folded or rolled sheets (together that one names " liga" or " ligada" for the Cuba ins), or filled of chopped sheets of tobacco of small pieces (for the cigars of less quality). One carries from there the end called foot (the other end, which one cuts, is called head) to incandescence so either inhaling the Fumée of it or to keep it in the mouth. Indeed, unlike the acid tobacco of the cigarettes, the smoke of a cigar does not need to be inhaled to feel of them full savor and the full effects. The majority of the amateurs n' inhale pas smoke.
Composition of a cigar
A cigar is composed of three parts:
The tripe
Tobacco which is inside the cigar, it consists of three types of sheets folded together which come from various parts of the plant:
- the volado: ensure the good combustion of the cigar and comes from the base from the foot from tobacco
- the seco: give the flavor of the cigar and comes from the median part of the foot of tobacco
- the ligero: give the force of the cigar and comes from the top of the foot from tobacco; it is it which receives the most sun, which explains the force that it gives to the cigar
The binder
Break into leaf intercalated between the tripe and wraps, it wraps the tripe and names also the hoods .
The cape
Break into leaf which coats the cigar, it influences combustion, ash and its esthetic aspect is of course very important. It is cultivated mainly in the area of Viñales.
Colors of cape
This is only one outline of the most visible nuances. Several other nuances exist, of which certain are only hardly perceptible.
- Claro claro : clear yellow
- Claro: brown very clear
- Colorado claro: brown clear with brown gold
- Colorado: brown average
- Colorado maduro: brown dark
- Maduro: brown very dark
- Oscuro: brown very dark, almost black
Families
There exist three families of cigars which are due to their mode of production:
- Totalmente has mano: the neatest production, the long tripe " tripa larga " (long because the sheets are whole), the binder as well as the cape are entirely posed with the hand by a torcedor.
- Hecho has mano: The tripe is short " tripa corta " and only the binder and the cape are posed by the torcedor, the tripe is assembled in a machine.
- Máquina: They are cigars entirely made with the machine, for the large productions, it acts of the least good category of cigar. There exist two types of Máquina:
- long Tripe: Relatively rare case or the sheet is whole
- short Tripe: The sheets which compose the tripe are chopped and mixed, they are generally the falls of sheets used for the design of the Totalmente has mano and Hecho has mano
Etymology
The word cigar comes from the Spanish word cigarro , word him even of dubious etymology, which could come from the Maya zicar (“to smoke”) or from Spanish will cigarra (“cicada”) to which it resembles by the form and the color.
Vocabulary
There exist many words specific to the world of the cigar, here is a nonexhaustive list:
- Ring: paper ring which decorates the cigars (a collector of rings of cigar is a vitolphilist)
- Casa tabaco: place where the sheets of tobacco dry after their harvest
- Cepo: instrument which is used with the torcedor to control the diameter of its vitoles
- Figurado: name of any cigar whose body is not cylindrical
- Puro: says itself of a cigar of which the tripe, binder and cape are composed by a of the same tobacco origin
- Torcedor (a): workman (era) who rolls the cigars
- Veguero: peasant who cultivates the tobacco
- Vista: engraving which decorates the boxes and the rings with cigar
- Vitole: name which takes into account the module, the mark and the ligada; Montecristo n°4 , for example, is a vitole
Modules
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name modulates of a cigar (or model) is the size of the cigar and its diameter. It should be known that the cigars are classified by modules and must respect exact dimensions at their exit of factory.
- Precise details: The modules can vary from a soil with another, this is why dimensions above are approximate. Moreover, some are recut because there exist great whole of modules of which here a part:
- Panatellas : small panatella and large panatella
- Coronas: very small coronas, small coronas, large coronas, lonsdales
Principal soils
The tobaccos used for the manufacture of cigars are cultivated mainly with Cuba, with the Cameroun, the Brésil, in Dominican Republic, Indonesia, with the Nicaragua, the Honduras and the the United States.
The cigars manufactured in Cuba (the Havana - Habanos ) are regarded by the smokers of the cigars as finest and most complex in term of tasting, although today many other countries produce cigars of quality comparable but not equivalent.
Savors
Like the Wine S, the cigars are appreciated for their various flavors, whose certain characteristics more often return like:
- wooded
- spiced
- earthy
- leather
- mielleux
- vegetable
- floral
These flavors develop on the 3 thirds of the cigars which one calls the hay (1st third), the divine (2nd third) then the liquid manure (3rd third).
Practical
The cigar implies a specific attitude on behalf of the smoker. The amateur starts by cutting the cigar using a guillotine or of another instrument to edge Net, then the cape will feel some before tasting " with vintage " , i.e. before lighting and will end up lighting it.Once the lit cigar, the smoker will devote up to three hours so that an activity should be named.
If the cigar were emblematic before Bourgeoisie, it is spread henceforth near new people, less rich, like near the women.