If you are an old school smoker or the one who just want to experience the old school smoking method, your obvious choice will be a cigar. Cigar smoking is all about taste and the options existing in are countless. Taste of cigars varies depending on things like the strain of tobacco, the place of its cultivation, the part of the plant in use and many more such things. Many of these tobaccos even undergo three to four years of preparation before becoming part of a cigar. Cigars are generally a blend of wrapper and filler tobaccos from different regions. Even though cigars look pretty simple, its making involves many different processes. Let’s have a look into the different steps involved in cigar making.

Every cigar consists of three main parts: the filler, the binder and the wrapper. These three parts blend together and forms the taste of cigar. Often different combinations of tobacco leaves are in use throughout the three parts to achieve an appealing flavor. Each of the part has a specific role to play. Wrapper is the outermost wrapping of the cigar and it affects the overall taste. So highest quality leaves are often in use for Wrapper. Blinder is the one that goes around the filler helping to form the shape of the cigar. The core part of cigars is filler and it decides the draw and burn quality of the cigar. Either long tobacco leaves or short tobacco pieces are clustered together into a cylinder to form the filler.

The first step in cigar making involves collecting the tobacco leaves and then sorting and processing them based on characteristics like color, strength, texture and size. Post processing, They prepare a blend in order to form a cigar with a particular taste. A blend is a specific combination of leaves that provides a unique flavor. Once the blend is ready, then comes the process of shaping it into a rough cylinder of tobacco known as bunch. At most care is taken to make sure that the leaves are laid in the bunch uniformly and straight. After the bunch is created it is tightly wrapped in a coarse layer of tobacco which is the binder. The binder gives the cigars its structure, shape, and ability to maintain its moisture content.

The next step is molding. The bound bunch is then placed into a mold, in order to mold into the desired shape. Molding is a time-consuming process. It helps to avoid crease showing through the wrapper on the finished cigar. Wrapping follows the molding process. Wrapping is performed by skilled hands of the rollers. The fine and silky wrapper tobacco stretched around the cigar body. Indeed, This is the process that gives cigars their appealing looks. The finished cigars are inspected and then labelled with required information. No matter whether you are an avid cigar smoker or a novice cigar enthusiast, visit KC Smokz to get your hands on some flavorful cigars.