Bind it up and Wrap it in

So what holds that Cuban cigar of yours intact.You know the actual layer to the most outside of a Cuban cigar? That oily wrapper (At least it’s suppose to be a little oily if it’s a good cigar)is what is outside of the binder. Yes the construction of Cuban cigars is a art on it’s own.

It amazes me when people ask me can I roll my own Cuban cigars? I usually tell them of course you can, and while you are at it might as well build a jumbo jet and go on a world tour. You see, Cuban cigars are so complex and the more you learn about them, the details will simply blow you away.

We are not talking about trashy crappy cigarettes here, this is a Cuban cigar my friend. A tradition that has many days of history behind it and a quite rich one too as I might say. After the binder, comes the wrapper that covers your Cuban cigars. A wrapper is essential for any Cuban cigar and so is the binder. Without these two objects, the whole process is just incomplete.

“Torecdores” or Cuban cigar rollers are well respected individuals and rightfully so. Rolling Cuban cigars is an art form that only the truly gifted can master. When you get a chance to go to Cuba, you must drop by at a Havana factory and see the miracle for yourself. It is simply mind blowing the sophistication behind each single Cuban cigar.

It is down right impossible to make a ‘good’ cigar without a binder. That is why when people try Cuban cigars, they are just so overwhelmed by the consistency. Cuban cigars are consistent throughout for a reason because it is a tradition that every one follows in Cuban and has been for a long time.