Partagas Benji Master Series Toro 6" * 54

When cigar legend Benji Menendez first released his Master Series in 2009, the cigar immediately earned a spot in Cigar Aficionado's Top 25 cigars of the year. In honor of Benji Menendez' 60 years as a master blender in the industry, the Toro LX frontmark has been released in 2012. Limited production, don't miss the chance to taste one of the best Dominican Partagas cigars ever produced.

• 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
  Toro

  The standard Toro shape is 6 inches by 50 ring gauge.
• Cigar Section
  Round

  Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.
• Cigar Length
  6"

  This cigar is 6 inches long, or 152.4 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
  54

  The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 54, so his diameter is 54/64 inches or 21.34 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.