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Appearance characteristics of cigars

Cigar is a kind of tobacco product, which is made of dried and fermented tobacco. When smoking, one end of the cigar is lit, and then the other end is exhaled through the mouth to produce smoke. The most famous cigars are produced in Cuba, in addition to China, Brazil and Cameroon.

colour

The darker the cigar leaves, the sweeter and richer the taste, and the higher the oil content and sugar content of eggplant clothes. The color of eggplant clothes is sometimes concentrated, which can be roughly divided into seven grades:

Blue-brown is also called American market choice, abbreviated as AMS or Candela. Only when the leaves are harvested and dried quickly before they are ripe will the leaves be this color. They are light, almost tasteless and contain a small amount of oil.

Dubelle Claro

Like light coffee, light brown is the standard color of light cigars, such as Havana H.Upmann and eggplant-coated cigars made of Connecticut leaves.

Claro

Brown, medium brown, made in Dominica, with Cameroonian eggplant skin.

Colorado Claro

Dark reddish brown, fragrant, fully fermented and mature color.

Colorado

The dark brown taste is medium and strong, and it smells more intense and fragrant than Maduro.

Maduro Colorado

Coffee-like dark brown Havana Bolivar is very suitable for veteran cigars and is also regarded as the traditional color of Cuban cigars.

Deep-colored and strong-flavored

Black is very strong but not very fragrant.

Oskulo

Someone's taste

Cigars are different from cigarettes. They have little smoke, usually some fermented tobacco and other flavors. Some good cigars, especially those from early Cuba to 1990, have almost no smoke smell. Some of the more common flavors include:

Leather Flavor Spice Cocoa/Chocolate Peat/Mu Si/Native Coffee Nut Apple Vanilla Peach