It’s Friday, and it’s time to answer another question submitted to Ask halfwheel by one of our readers. Yami recently asked the following: What does it take for a cigar to be recognized as a premium? Is it its price, rarity, history or your rating of it? Is it because it is hand made? If so doesn’t that devalue the “premium-ness” of cigars since the bulk of them are hand made? I’m pretty new to the scene, and I’m just curious. I’d hate to unassumingly buy junk sticks, it would help if there was a gauge from which to measure the classes of cigars out there if there is such a thing. Unfortunately, there is no clear threshold as to just what makes a cigar premium; it has nothing to do with price, rarity, history or the rating it gets from halfwheel or any other cigar media. But there are some attributes that all premium cigars tend to have, so let’s start there. Tobacconist University, one of the industry’s leading resources, defines a premium cigar as “large cigars which are made from only long leaf tobacco and are made exclusively by hand.” A large cigar, by the U.S. government’s definition, is one ...
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