About Cigar Cutters  
Are all cigar cutters the 
same ~ The great debate 
on which is best 
 

About Humidors and Storing Your Cigars 
What is the best way to 
keep cigars? A discussion 
about aging and storgage 
 

Turning The Corner 
A discussion about the 
cigar industry in general 
and the Dominican  
Republic ~ Problems with 
Quality over the last few 
years 
 

The darker maduro wrapper will often appeal to the smoker looker for a more flavorful, but sweeter cigar. 
   
The filler is the actual content of the cigar.  It is what makes up for the flavor and in part the strength.    There are two types of filler: long filler, which contains the whole leaf running from the head to the foot of the cigar, and short filler, comprised of scraps of tobacco.  

What determines the overall Cigar Experience and why 
do cigars taste differently? 

The cigar flavor is really determined from a combination of  wrapper, filler and binder.  Getting the propotions or combinations right is truly an art form.  Like the blending of whisky or other spirits, an experienced  master roller develops a sixth sense as to what proportions will work best or yield a desired result.  This is why, again as with an 
an experienced whisky blender, a change in the master roller could mean a change in the taste or blend of a particular cigar line. 

Even with a particular cigar line, different sized cigars may have a different taste or blend.  Why is this so?  An experienced roller may use different proportions of the tobaccos in different sizes to allow for that size difference. In a smaller ring cigar, the binder and wrapper have a greater influence on the taste, for instance. The blender will allow for this difference by re-proportioning the filler blend.  So even with different cigar sizes of the same line