Description

This mild cigar offers a smooth smoking experience with pleasing notes of coffee, earth, and hints of spice. Its Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper covers a Honduran binder and filler leaves from Honduras and Nicaragua. The cigars are handmade in Honduras. The Oscar 2012 Sumatra is the fifth release of this popular brand.

Specifications

• BrandsOscar 2012 SumatraIn 2012, Honduran cigar crafter, Oscar Valladares released his first cigars. He aptly named them the Oscar 2012. The year also references the wild predictions that said the world was going to end in 2012, which were loosely based on erroneous readings of the Mayan calendar. Thankfully, those predictions were wrong. The Oscar 2012 Sumatra is the fifth release of this popular line. The cigars feature an Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper that covers a Honduran binder and filler leaves from Honduras and Nicaragua. This specially selected blend offers a smooth, mild smoking experience. The cigars are handmade in Honduras.
• Cigar ShapeRobustoThe Robusto is a short Churchill size, traditionally 5 to 5.5 inches by a 50 ring gauge.
• Cigar SectionBox-Pressed (Square)A box pressed cigar is a cigar that has a square shape. Originally, this shape came from the practice of packing round cigars tightly in cardboard boxes which are then compacted using a manual press. The cigars are thus pressed into each other and become a “squarish” or semi-square shape. Today, cigar makers use square shaped molds or a wooden trunk press for their box pressed cigars, achieving a more defined square section.
• Cigar Length4″This cigar is 4 inches long, or 101.6 mm.
• OriginHondurasMost cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.Honduras, a Central American country which shares a border with Nicaragua, is widely known in the premium cigar industry as the ideal place to grow Cuban and Connecticut seed tobaccos. Danli and the Jamastran Valley is considered the heart of Honduras cigar industry. The Jamastran Valley is known for producing a full-bodied tobacco that draws strong comparisons to the tobacco grown in the Pinar del Rio region of Cuba. This same region is also known for its Connecticut shade grown and Corojo shade grown tobacco. In addition, Honduras produces Cuban-seed sun grown filler tobaccos of the highest quality.
• Cigar Ring Gauge50The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 50, so his diameter is 50/64 inches or 19.81 mm.
• Strength Mild
• Wrapper ColorNaturalCigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (MaduroorOscuro) with a full range of browns in between.Natural wrapper, also known as Colorado Claro, is light brown in color.
• Single PackagingCellophane
• Rolling TypeHandmadeHandmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar ManufacturerOscar ValladaresEstablished in 2012, Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. was founded by Oscar Valladares, Hector Valladares, and Bayron Duartre. Combined they have more than 30 years in the tobacco industry. Their facility is located in Danli, Honduras. The Leaf by Oscar, Altar Q, Oscar 2012, Super Fly, and The Oscar are some of the cigars they produce.
• Cigar WrapperEcuadorian Sumatra-SeedThe wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.Ecuador is the perfect place to grow wrappers, because it is located on the Equator! And it has rich soils too. The weather conditions, with a nearly permanent cloudy sky, provide a natural shade, protecting the wrapper plants from sunshine and allowing the tobacco to grow thin and light. Ecuador supplies Connecticut and Sumatra type wrappers to many cigar factory in the world.
• Cigar BinderHondurasThe binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar and bind the filler tobaccos together. Honduran tobacco is known for being full-bodied. Cigars produced in Honduras are regarded for their consistency and quality. Using Honduran tobacco as a binder will add to the cigars overall strength and flavor profile.
• Cigar FillerHondurasFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.NicaraguaFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.
• UPC691835389431691835387932