Tatuaje J21 Ligero Wrapper

[bigeasycigars]

I'll be here all week....Try the veal!

This is one of the more entertaining threads I read in awhile!!

 

[kyleb]

Alright, if you can make me laugh VIA text, I'm sure I'll have a great time when I end up at your shop again. :yes:

Tyler, great information!

 

[uncelnino]

I may be wrong, but I also have not heard of a ligero wrapper on the Tat. Pete is back on the 13th, hopefully he will chime in then.

 

[bigeasycigars]

The "J21" uses a higher priming wrapper 6-8 (Ligero)...The SW of the "Reserva" line uses a lower priming wrapper 5-6ish (Viso). The J21 wrapper is Nicaraguan. The Reserva line uses a combo of Criollo as well as Corojo making it 100% Nicaraguan thus a puro.

A note on primings: The rows of leaves on a tobacco plant. The number of primings varies, but 6-7 is average. The first priming is closest to the ground, the seventh is near the top ect. The higher the priming, the stronger the tobacco. Sun-grown leaves are generally higher-priming. So the higher the priming the darker the tobacco.

Another note: Color...There are about 64 shades of brown. Probably 15 or more shades of brown could fall into the J21 category. If you were to smoke a light colored J21 and then a darker colored one blindly you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. IMHO Just my experience.....E

Corojo and Criollo are tobacco plants. Ligero is a name for a leaf found on the plants. Volado, seco, ligero, etc. refer to the specific location of the leaves on the plants. Ligero, which I think means 'light', refers to the top leaves, which get the most sunlight and are therefore the strongest.

So it could be a ligero leaf from a corojo plant (if corojo plants have ligero leaves, I kinda thought their top leaves were called coronas or something).
I believe that one of the lower leaves on the corojo plant is referred to as a centro ligero leaf. That could be the answer to your question.


TYLER

 

[JDP]

Th darker the leaf the sweeter the juice! :halfgrinw

 

[mrpunch]

We should start a thread topic "Most absurd questions asked at a Tobacconist"...I have many stories I could imput. But as they say "That's Retail". Any other tobacconists out there cringe when someone asks if you sell "cubans".... After telling them no, they then ask for a Macanudo?

Last month a customer and I were hanging out at the shop and his girlfriend stopped by with a few girlfriends of hers that went to dinner with her. One of them wanted a cigar. They came in - I showed them the humidor and she said she wanted a cigar that was "Smooth and Salty". I ... really couldn't answer that one ...

 

[Mitch]

Last month a customer and I were hanging out at the shop and his girlfriend stopped by with a few girlfriends of hers that went to dinner with her. One of them wanted a cigar. They came in - I showed them the humidor and she said she wanted a cigar that was "Smooth and Salty". I ... really couldn't answer that one ...

A smooth and salty cigar, you sure she wasn't flurting?

 

[jmatkins]

A smooth and salty cigar, you sure she wasn't flurting?

Nice !