Partagas Benji Master Series Prominentes 7" * 49

Benji Menendez has been making cigars for over 60 years, famously creating Partagas. Benji Menendez limited edition Master series have received critical acclaim, so now the blend has been turned into a regular full time production with the Partagas Benji Master Series Prominentes. This Churchill cigar is wrapped in a dark Cameroon leaf, a Connecticut Havana binder, and filled with Dominican and Nicaraguan ligeros. Complex flavors are abundant in this medium bodied cigar.

• Brands
  Partagas Benji Master Series

  Benji Menendez is a true legend whose storied career in the premium cigar business spans more than 60 years. The 2009 limited release of the Partagas Benji Master Series earned the cigar a spot in Cigar Aficionado's coveted Top 25 cigars of the year. Since then, two sizes have been launched for full time production due to the popular demand for this cigar, which has been called the best Dominican Partagas ever produced.
• Cigar Shape
  Churchill

  This large corona is traditionally 7*48. Length can vary from 6 3/4 to 7 7/8 inches by 46 to 50 ring.
• Cigar Section
  Round

  Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.
• Cigar Length
  7"

  This cigar is 7 inches long, or 177.8 mm.
• Origin
  Dominican Republic

  Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
  The Dominican Republic is the world's first producer of cigars. Most factories are located in Santiago, in the center of the island, and in close proximity to the tobacco fields grown in the fertile Cibao Valley. While tobacco and cigars have always traditionally been produced in the Dominican Republic, many Cuban cigar makers established in the Dominican Republic after the Cuban communist revolution, elevating the quality of Dominican cigars.
• Cigar Ring Gauge
  49

  The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 49, so his diameter is 49/64 inches or 19.56 mm.
• Strength
  Medium
• Wrapper Color
  Colorado

  Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
  Colorado is a medium brown color also known as EMS or English Market Selection as this used to be the color with more popularity in England than in America.
• Single Packaging
  Cellophane
• Rolling Type
  Handmade

  Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar Manufacturer
  General Cigars/ST Group

  General Cigar Company manufactures premium cigars in several factories located in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Founded by Edgar Cullman, Sr. in 1960, the company experienced incredible success with their Macanudo brand. After a series of acquisitions throughout the years that made General Cigars one of the largest cigar manufacturers in the world, the company merged with Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) in 2010.
• Cigar Wrapper
  Cameroon

  The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
  Cameroon wrappers are grown in the East part of the country. The growing area spreads over the eastern border, into the Central African Republic. Wrappers are air grown, without fertilizers and pesticides, by small farmers. The average plantation size is about one acre. The seed is originally from Sumatra, introduced in the country just after WWII.
• Cigar Binder
  Connecticut Habano

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Connecticut Habano binder is grown from Connecticut seed by General Cigar Co.
• Cigar Filler
  Dominican Ligero

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

  Nicaraguan Ligero

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.
• Magazine rating
  87