FAQ

Typically, cigar flavors come in three tiers: mild, medium, or full body. You will experience a smooth and cooler smoke by choosing a larger diameter cigar. When looking at the length of a cigar, it helps you determine the time it takes to smoke. Vinals Cigars offers all their tiers of intensity, check out our newest additions!

With the cigar in hand, rotate it between your lips, and enjoy all the textures received from the cigar. Next, inhale your mouth with a soft draw of smoke, divulge in the complex flavor of the tobacco on your palate, and then gently exhale to remove smoke from your mouth. Remember to remove ash from the cigar as you continue smoking. Our number one tip is simple: Relax and enjoy.

There are 3 main parts of cigars. Those being wrappers, binders, and filler.

The wrapper is the outside layer of tobacco on a cigar. This is one of the main parts of flavor regarding cigars. Wrappers are typically very high quality leaves, and are available in colors ranging from dark to light. Wrappers are very important to the taste of a fine cigar.

Binder leaves are the intermediate leaf used to hold the bunch of filler tobacco together.

Filler is the bunch of tobacco found at the center of the cigar. Typically, the filler is responsible for determining how strong a cigar will smoke. There are two types of filler: long filler, which contains the whole leaf running from the head to the foot of the cigar, and short filler, comprised of scraps of tobacco (often the trimmed ends of long fillers).

The mix of these 3 parts helps in formulating the overall flavor of a cigar. There is an technique to blending tobaccos and as you experience different cigars, you will notice how the various tobaccos coordinate with one another.

If cigars are not stored properly, they can become dry and no longer smokeable. Cigars are best kept in a container which is able to maintain a 70-degree temperature and humidity level. This can be achieved by purchasing a humidor.

One side of a cigar has been closed or capped; this is called the head and is the end you smoke. To do so you must remove part of the cap, cutting the cigar. When cutting the cigar, remove as little of the cap as is possible, so the cigar will not come apart or fray.