A bright green shade of wrapper, achieved by a heat curing process that fixes the chlorophyll content of the wrapper while it's still in the barn. The knife used in a cigar factory for cutting the wrapper leaf. The process of removing moisture from freshly harvested tobacco. In addition one variety looks like a .44 magnum bullet and another a fountain pen, they pull apart to reveal a punch that cuts a round hole in the end of the cigar. The air passing through the lit cigar.
Wrapper leaves that are slightly lighter in color than maduro.
The tobacco that makes up the heart or center of the cigar. There are two main types of filler, short and long. The filler is responsible for most of the flavor and smoking quality. Short filler consists of leaves that have been cut into many small pieces. The majority of machine made cigars are done so with short filler.