Alec Bradley Chunk Sumatra XL 4" * 60

The Alec Bradley Chunk Shade delivers big satisfaction in a short, stout package. Handcrafted in Honduras, it features a Honduran Connecticut Shade wrapper, U.S. Broadleaf binder, and Dominican, Honduran, and Nicaraguan fillers. Smooth and mellow, with notes of cream, toast, and hay, this chunky cigar offers generous smoke and exceptional value.

The Robusto is a short Churchill size, traditionally 5 to 5.5 inches by a 50 ring gauge.

Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.

This cigar is 4 inches long, or 101.6 mm.

Most 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.

The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 60, so his diameter is 60/64 inches or 23.88 mm.

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
Natural wrapper, also known as Colorado Claro, is light brown in color.

Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.

The ST Group (aka the Scandinavian Tobacco Group) is one of the top manufacturers of premium handmade cigars in the world. It was founded in 1961 as the Scandinavian Tobacco Company. In 2008, the company changed its name to ST Group. Their headquarters is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition to handmade cigars, ST Group produces and sells machine made cigars, pipe tobacco, and fine cut tobacco. ST Group’s main hand-crafted cigar brands include: CAO, Diesel, Macanudo, and non-Cuban production versions of Cohiba, Punch, Partagas and La Glorida Cubana. These brands are managed by General Cigar Company a subsidiary of ST Group.

The 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.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
USA Connecticut Broadleaf tobacco is grown in the Connecticut River Valley area. The soil in this region is of glacial origins. The tobacco is dark, oily, flavorful, and aromatic. It is used primarily as a maduro wrapper, but it also serves as an excellent binder.

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.
Filler (or “tripa” in Spanish) is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar. The Dominican Republic is considered one of the most premier tobacco growing countries in the world. The filler tobacco grown in this Caribbean island nation ranges from mild to full bodied. Olor Dominicano and Piloto Cubano are the main types of tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic.