CLE Prieto Toro 6" * 52

CLE Prieto is one of the first cigars that Christian Eiroa of CLE has made in Nicaragua and also one of the boldest. Traditionally, CLE Cigars have been made in Honduras but Eiroa wanted to try something new. These box pressed premium cigars are handmade with a dark Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper and Nicaraguan binder and filler. Medium to full bodied, the CLE Prieto cigars are each wrapped in tissue paper.

The standard Toro shape is 6 inches by 50 ring.

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.

This cigar is 6 inches long, or 152.4 mm.

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.

The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 52, so his diameter is 52/64 inches or 20.57 mm.

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
Maduro wrapper can go from dark coffee brown with a reddish tint to blackish brown (the latter also called Oscuro).

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

CLE Cigar Company was founded in 2012 by Christian Eiroa, previously president of Camacho Cigars. Their cigars are produced in their Aladino Factory in Danli, Honduras, and in their Wynwood factory in Miami.

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
Connecticut Broadleaf is grown in the United States' Connecticut Valley and is prized for its dark, oily, full flavored and aromatic characteristics. The plants are grown in full sun giving this cigar wrapper its characteristic sweetness. The Connecticut Broadleaf plant leaves are mainly processed as maduro tobacco. Today, Connecticut Broadleaf seeds are being grown in other countries besides the United States.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.

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