The Cigar Making Process

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 Time: 9:46 PM
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In accordance with historical documentations, the world's earliest cigars were prepared by local Cubans. Christopher Columbus, during his journey to the New World, for the very first time came across Cubans smoking unrefined cigars and he brought some along with him to Europe. These days, cigar smoking can prove to be quite an expensive habit, because cigars are normally high-priced.

The tobacco leaf is possibly the most significant component in a premium quality cigar. A cigar needs three different kinds of tobacco leaf:

. Broken or small leaves, used for cigar stuffing
. Full, intact leaves are needed for interior binding or wrapping
. A large leaf with an even texture is essential for outside wrapper

The cigar creation procedure also necessitates other raw materials, like a flavorless gum, which is required to join together the outer wrapper ends. At times, seasoning agents are sprayed on top of the stuffing leaves.

The actual cigar making procedure involves various different steps, such as;

Step 1: Farming of Tobacco Tobacco plants have to be pruned carefully making sure that their leaves reach the correct size. Plants, which produce leaves, used for the external wrappers, are normally shielded, to protect the leaves from the straight rays of the sunlight.

Step 2: Curing In this phase, the leaves are yielded and treated, to produce the cigar's distinctive aroma. After reaping, the leaves need be treated, so as to cultivate their distinctive aroma.

Step 3: Fermenting After being treated, the leaves are separated by color and size. Then, about 10 to 15 leaves are tightly attached in bundles, generally known as hands, and are kept in boxes, known as hogsheads.

Step 4: Stripping On this stage, the filler leaves are stripped of their chief vein. This method is performed either manually or mechanically. Then a stripped tobacco leaves are made into bundles and stocked for additional fermentation. Immediately, previous to the leaves are all set for cigar making, they endure steaming process, so that the lost moisture is restored.

Step 5: Hand rolling World quality cigars are hand rolled. Rolling is really a tricky art, which often only be performed by skilled and qualified labors. The packing of filler is required to be even so that it smoothly burns.

Step 6: Wrapping Wrapping is another difficult step, in which a partly finished cigar is removed from the cast, laid on the binder leaf after which it is cut by means of an unique rounded knife known as a chaveta.

Although the word's premium cigars are still made by Cubans, cigar production has developed into an art, which has spread throughout the globe.

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