Cigar Tobacco
The tobacco in cigars is usually air-cured and dried tobacco. The cigar is initially derived from tobacco leaves, which are aged for about a year, and then led through a fermentation process and other processes that last another several months. Cigars technically have three types of tobacco leaves in them; these include the wrapper of the cigar, the binder, as well as the filler. The wrapper of the cigar is taken from the widest part of the plant, and is the determining factor for the flavor of the cigar, for the darker the wrapper of the tobacco leaf, the sweeter the taste or flavor. The filler is what makes up the majority of the cigar, and this is where the leaves are bunched up. Fillers have different lengths and come in many different varieties, depending on which portion of the tobacco leaf the fillers are taken from. The binders are leaves that hold in place the fillers and keep them intact. When the leaves are first put through a process in which both heat and shade are utilized in order to control the amount of sugar and water in the leaves while preventing the leaves from withering or rotting. This initial process is called curing, and takes anywhere from a month to over a month to complete. Then comes fermentation, in which the leaves are allowed to age and placed under a specific temperature and humidity level. The amount of tobacco that is in the cigar depends on the size of the cigar, of course. Usually, in a big cigar, there is anywhere from 5 to 17 grams of tobacco