What are cigars made out of?

Answer 1

Usually wooden boxes lined with cedar. There are cardboard cigar boxes. There are also wooden ones made from Spanish cedar. Occasionally you'll find a cigar box that's made from some really fancy wood with a smaller Spanish cedar box built into it.

Answer 2

Three kinds of tobacco--wrapper, binder and filler. The wrapper is the most delicate, expensive part of the cigar, and it imparts most of the distinctive flavor to the cigar. The binder holds the filler together. Hand-rolled cigars use leaf tobacco binders. Machine-made cigars use "homogenized tobacco leaf," which is tobacco ground up and formed into sheets. The filler gives the cigar its bulk. Hand-rolled cigars use large leaves which are bunched, molded and trimmed to the size of the cigar. Machine-made cigars use chopped tobacco leaf--usually the trimmings from hand-rolled cigars, or leaves either not good enough or too small to be used in hand-rolled cigars. Some cigars are flavored, and if they are they'll infuse the cigar with something like liquor.

Answer 3

Cigars go through a very time consuming process. First the tobacco leaves are harvested. Then a process called curing takes place and this lasts 25-45 days. This prepares the leaf for human consumption. Then fermentation occurs this is where the flavor, aroma, and burning chacteristics are brought out the leaf. Once the leaves have aged properly the are sorted for filler or wrapper based on appearance and overall quality. The leaves continue to be moistioned and handled carefully to ensure the best quality. Here the leaf will go through a serious a being balled and un-baled to continue the aging cycle. When the leaf mature to specifications it will be used in the making of a cigar.

Answer 4

Good cigars are 100% tobacco. The wrapper, filler and binder are all tobacco. Most of the store brands have additives.