Foundation Charter Oak Maduro Petite Corona 5"1/4 * 42

The Foundation Charter Oak Maduro Petite Corona is a medium strength cigar that is handmade at AJ Fernandez’s Tabacalera factory in Nicaragua. Its rustic, dark USA Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper covers a Sumatran binder and a filler composed of Nicaraguan leaves. This is a great everyday smoke that offers up warm notes of earth and chocolate with hints of cedar.

• Brands
  Foundation Charter Oak Maduro

  Handmade at the famed Tabacalera Fernandez factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, the Foundation Charter Oak Maduro is a value-priced cigar that smokes like a premium. A rugged, sweet USA Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper surrounds the Foundation Charter Oak Maduro’s Sumatran binder and Nicaraguan fillers to create earthy and chocolatey notes with hints of cedar.
• Cigar Shape
  Petit Corona

  The classic size of this short corona is 5 inches by a 40 to 44 ring gauge, but it can be as short as 4 inches.
• Cigar Section
  Round

  Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.
• Cigar Length
  5"1/4

  This cigar is 5"1/4 inches long, or 133.35 mm.
• Origin
  Nicaragua

  Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
  Despite many decades of war and revolution in this Central American country, the cigar industry has thrived due to the hard work and tenacity of Cuban exiles to the land such as Plasencia, Padron, Oliva, Ortez, and others. Tobacco has been a force of social stability, and the country is now one of the principal exporters of premium cigars in the world.
• Cigar Ring Gauge
  42

  The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 42, so his diameter is 42/64 inches or 16.76 mm.
• Strength
  Medium
• Wrapper Color
  Maduro

  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).
• Single Packaging
  Cellophane
• Rolling Type
  Handmade

  Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar Manufacturer
  AJ Fernandez

  Cuban expatriate AJ Fernandez produces handmade cigars in Esteli, Nicaragua at the Tabacalera Fernandez factory. Fernandez learned everything he knows about tobacco and cigarmaking from his late grandfather, cigar legend Alejandro Robaina.
• Cigar Wrapper
  USA Connecticut Broadleaf

  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.
• Cigar Binder
  Sumatra

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Tobacco grown in Sumatra is chiefly used as a wrapper, but it also serves as a great binder. It is flavorful and has a consistent dark color.
• Cigar Filler
  Nicaragua

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