Which Wrapper Do You Normally Prefer? (see Chart)
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Ditto!
rick12string
Caught in the Crossfire
Definitely Maduro but I have enjoyed many cigars with all the other wrappers, the only exception being the double claro.
CAMMI OR DARK C. BROADLEAF - DEPENDS ON THE FILLER OF THE CIGAR:scratchhe
try the hl candelas!
Thegreekone
Banned
+1
my sentiments exactly. When I smoke a cameroon there is usually a different kind of complexity that I not only enjoy, but makes me appreciate the maduro smokes that much more. My oscuro wrapped Satoris should be here any day and I am excited.
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Cigar Cowboy
BoY...in Hell!!!
Do you think dye effects the flavor?
BagfullofPings
IEHHC
Corojo!!
I would have to say my fav is a maduro.
However, I've never known it as a color or shade of wrapper, but rather maduro describes the additional fermentation process. So a true maduro could lie almost anywhere in the darker color ranges of wrapper that you listed.
However, I've never known it as a color or shade of wrapper, but rather maduro describes the additional fermentation process. So a true maduro could lie almost anywhere in the darker color ranges of wrapper that you listed.
Docbp87
Smoke Into Oblivion
Just looked at this poll for the first time in a while, and realized something. The image shown in the OP is actually a chart used to describe color, and color only, and has nothing to do with seed, wrapper origin, or process, etc. You can have a Cameroon wrapper that is any number of shades, but is still Cameroon. Colorado Maduro describes a color only. A lot of times these terms seem to be used mostly to describe shades of Cuban wrappers, that is, wrappers grown in Cuba, since the strain of tobacco used on a particular cigar for the wrapper is not really usually specified to the consumer. For instance a box of Monte #4s may have Colorado colored wrappers, while another box of Monte #4 will have a Colorado Maduro colored wrapper, but they actually use the same wrapper leaf (in terms of strain/seed of Tobacco) and are cured with the same process (technically). Maduro is two things, normally the term describes a process by which wrapper leaf is fermented longer, and in a specific way, in order to achieve certain characteristics. The term is also used in grading wrapper color, for instance, a particular cigar may have a Corojo wrapper, that is Maduro in color, but has not actually been given Maduro fermentation/treating/aging process, and therefor is not a maduro leaf, just maduro shade in color... These things can be so very complicated...
Same goes for Oscuro. Oscuro means that it the leaf has been left on the plant for an inordinate amount of time, allowing it more exposure to the Sun and nutrients (and, I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Oscuro wrappers actually start to cure while still on the plant), which gives it a darker, rougher texture and color. It is also, in the case of this chart, used as a color indicator, specifying cigars that are almost black in color. An Oscuro leaf may be Colorado Maduro, but also Oscuro. Oscuro because of the way it was cured and aged, but Colorado Maduro in color.
Same goes for Oscuro. Oscuro means that it the leaf has been left on the plant for an inordinate amount of time, allowing it more exposure to the Sun and nutrients (and, I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Oscuro wrappers actually start to cure while still on the plant), which gives it a darker, rougher texture and color. It is also, in the case of this chart, used as a color indicator, specifying cigars that are almost black in color. An Oscuro leaf may be Colorado Maduro, but also Oscuro. Oscuro because of the way it was cured and aged, but Colorado Maduro in color.