Cigars. Glossary. Part 1

April 13, 2010

"Bouquet"

As well as in application to wines it characterizes aroma of qualitative and right kept cigar.

"Bulls eyes"

It is type of guillotine for cigar's end cutting before smoking. It makes round hole of necessary size.

Aged cigars

Cigars that have gone aging process, i.e. as minimum three-months storage in dark premises which's walls are trimmed with wood cedar with necessary level of air humidity. As result taste and aroma of cigar acquire saturation and steadiness. You mustn't confuse aging - storage of already ready cigars - with tobacco leafs ripening process.

Hygrometer

It is device for measuring relative air humidity that is used in humidors.

"Guillotine"

It is special cigar knife for cigar's end cutting before smoking.

Carotene

It is substance that is accumulated in cigar tobacco while aging it.

"Booking" style

Method of hand cigar rolling widespread, for example, in Honduras. It consists in the following: man that rolls cigar puts few leafs of filling one on another and than rolls them.

Mixture

Tobacco mixture of different kinds in cigar, including filling, under-leaf and covering leaf.

Stuffing leaf (Filler)

These are tobacco leafs that fill cigar's interior. In a good cigar usually is present not only one but till five sorts of stuffing tobacco.

"Shoulder"

Area between cigar end and its main part. If carelessly cutting cigar you can affect "shoulder", and in this case covering leaf will begin to unroll.