The Wonderful World of Cigars. Sometimes, it
can be a world of confusion. One company will call one cigar by one name
and another something totally different for the same size and shape. We're
going to try to help sort these things out for you and hopefully make your cigar smoking and buying
experience a wonderful one. In this section, we will cover the more common sizes, shapes and defintions.
Construction: All but the very thinnest cigars have filler
tobacco at the center, binder leaf and wrapper. If the cigar is handmade
using long filler tobacco, the leaves will run lengthwise. All three aspects
will be tied together to complete the cigar. Machine made cigars use pieces
or scraps of tobacco for the filler. These cigars will oftentimes use a
"synthetic" wrapper which is stronger than the regular tobacco leaf and
is available in different textures, flavors and strengths.
Wrapper:
Double Claro aka "American Market Selection"
or "Candela"
this wrapper is often green.
Claro
grown mostly in Connecticut and is very light
tan, almost beige.
Colorado Claro aka "Natural" or "English Market
Selection"
medium brown in color
Colorado
reddish tint
Colorado Maduro
deeper red color found in Havana seed grown
in Honduras
Maduro
very dark or black. grown throughout the America's.
Shapes
& Sizes:
Giant
8" +
50+ ring
Double Corona
6.75 - 7.75"
49 - 54 ring
Churchill
6.75 - 7.87"
46 - 48 ring
Pyramid
any length
flared
Torpedo
any length
tapered
Toro
5.67 - 6.67
45 - 54 ring
Robusto (aka Rothchilds)
4.5 - 5.5"
48 - 54 ring
Grand Corona
5.67 - 6.67"
45 - 47 ring
Corona Extra
4.5 - 5.5"
45 - 47 ring
Giant Corona
7.5" +
42 - 45 ring
Lonsdale
6.5 - 7.25"
40 - 44 ring
Long Corona
5.87 - 6.37"
40 - 44 ring
Corona
5.25 - 5.75"
40 - 44 ring
Petite Corona
4 - 5"
40 - 44 ring
Long Panatela
7" +
35 - 39 ring
Panatela
5.5 - 6.87"
35 - 39 ring
Short Panatela
4 - 5.37"
35 - 39 ring
Slim Panatela
5" +
30 - 34 ring
Small Panatela
4 - 5"
30 - 34 ring
Cigarillos
6" and less
29 ring and less
*Pyramid's are different from Torpedos by their continual
flare making them slightly triangular in shape
** Ring sizes are based on 64's of an inch.
