Wrapper types

[Tanga]

I have some questions about wrapper types. Which distinct wrapper types are there? Is, for an example, San Agustin a wrapper typ? What about Rosado, Jalapa, Pueblo Nuevo, Medio Tempo, Café Colorado, Pelo de Oro, Vuelta Abajo, Trojes, Sancti Spiritus?

I think, personally, that it is very hard to define if it is a wrapper type or it is only the place which the wrapper is grown. Anybody who could shine some light over the matter?

 

[javajunkie]

honestly, this is a cluster. you have designation based on location, like san augustin, ecuadorian, etc. you have designation based on color grading and curing, almost like coffee, like colorado and claro. and you have designations based on seed/ plant strain, like sancti spiriti, broadleaf, habano 2000, etc. what sucks is when a place name and a seed strain coincide: not nearly all CT shade is grown in connecticut.

add to this the fact that companies rarely give you the ENTIRE list. usually one or two at best, of origin, plant, and process. it's cool if you like digging, and a royal pain if you are anal and need to know it all.

 

[ATL]

What Javajunkie wrote, and much of the wrapper leaf description is marketing speak in many cases. A sun grown Ecuadorian wrapper sounds a lot more appetizing than double fermented Habano 2000. I did a contest earlier this year where I asked folks to guess the wrapper on various sticks. The homework on that part was the hardest for the above reasons. The most consistent information about any leaf is where it's grown, beyond that there's often a descriptor instead of a noun.

 

[CalixtoLopez]

Some of my favorite wrapper gimmicks
C.F.W. Connecticut Fermented Wrapper on the Diamond Crown - it's Conn Shade
El Bajo Sun Grown on Maximus: still don't know what that is.
Virgin Sun Grown on VSG: took me 10 years to learn it is Ecuadorian Sumatra. Still don't know what ESG wrapper is.
Padron Anni Maduro is said to be secretly San Andres
Leccia calls his Cameroon "African Sun Grown"

Like ATL said, it'd be nice to get the strain, location and growing & fermentation details for everything.

 

[sean]

This also speaks to a larger challenge people face when getting into cigar culture (or at least I did). Cigars lack the same taxonomy as, say, wine or beers. Why that is has really baffled me, because cigars have many of the same attributes - flavors, color, nose, mouthfeel, etc - and other attributes that are specific to cigars but vary across multiple cigars - smoke output, tobacco type, tobacco origin, etc.

 

[CasualStogie]

Padron Anni Maduro is said to be secretly San Andres

I have also heard this. What's the deal with trying to hide it? Looks like more brands are moving toward that wrapper- as per halfwheel's article on the ipcpr roundup.

 

[MrHappy]

I like this article on dif wrappers.

http://www.cigarinspector.com/category/cigar-wrappers-a-z

Rene'