What is a “premium” cigar?
The term “premium”, when applied to cigars, indicates that it is not a machine made, mass market style of cigar. In order to be classified as such, it will have the following characteristics: Premium cigars are constructed from three parts; The filler, the binder, and the wrapper. The filler is the interior of the cigar. When a cigar is examined from the open end, the filler can be seen as the leaves that are twisted in spirals within the center of the cigar. When the term “long filler” is used, it means that the filler was constructed from full leaves. These leaves are picked, stored, and aged intact, and are obviously handled with great care. Rolling long filler cigars takes great skill to insure that it burns evenly and smoothly. The second type of filler is short filler. Short filler consists of loose clippings of leaves that are leftover from the long filler production, or leaves that broke anywhere along the cultivation process.
The term “premium”, when applied to cigars, indicates that it is not a machine made, mass market style of cigar. In order to be classified as such, it will have the following characteristics: Premium cigars are constructed from three parts; The filler, the binder, and the wrapper. The filler is the interior of the cigar. When a cigar is examined from the open end, the filler can be seen as the leaves that are twisted in spirals within the center of the cigar. When the term “long filler” is used, it means that the filler was constructed from full leaves. These leaves are picked, stored, and aged intact, and are obviously handled with great care. Rolling long filler cigars takes great skill to insure that it burns evenly and smoothly. The second type of filler is short filler. Short filler consists of loose clippings of leaves that are leftover from the long filler production, or leaves that broke anywhere along the cultivation process. Premium short filler cigars are made from 100% toba
That’s an easy one…a premium cigar is a 100% hand made cigar made with long filler tobacco (meaning full leaves, not pieces of tobacco-a cheap cigar has you spitting out the short fill because when u smoke them the short fill always enters your mouth) Anyway a premium cigar is ALSO a cigar that has been properly cured or aged…usually a premium cigar is aged at the very least 2 years. Usually under a year as raw tobacco, and at least 4 months as a rolled cigar… That is the bare minimum for being a premium cigar…more expensive cigars consist of rare tobacco, years of aging, and better primings from the tobacco plant….
If you have been into cigars for more than a couple of days, I’m sure you are familiar with the term Premium Cigar. This term gets thrown around alot in the industry and I thought it would be great to talk about it a little bit and see if everyone could help me refine my definition. Just like I did with the article on Boutique cigars, I posted a daily discussion topic on the Stogie Review Fan Forums asking how everyone would define the term Premium Cigar. There were several interesting responses that were thought provoking. Ratters Actually I’ve always accepted that term loosely as ad speak to mean any cigar that’s pretty hand rolled with long filler. For me though it would be any reliably good boxed/bundled cigar. I would consider the Tornano 1959 Gold to be a premium cigar, though it’s only three or four bucks a stick by the box. I also consider the Obsidian a premium cigar even though it can be had for less than two bucks a pop on cbid. Free Cuba, not so much. Mountchuck Anything ab
