La Palina Number 1 Gordo 6" * 60

The La Palina Number 1 Gordo is a medium-strength Toro that is handmade at the famed Plasencia Cigars factory in Honduras. The reddish Ecuadorian Sumatra-Seed wrapper is expertly wound around a Costa Rican binder and filler tobaccos from Honduras and Nicaragua. Notes of cedar and pepper will greet your palette from the first puff to the last.

• Brands
  La Palina Number 1

  La Palina Number 1, aka LP#1 or LP01, uses unique Costa Rican tobacco in the binder, with a medium brown Ecuador Sumatra wrapper and Nicaraguan and Honduran tobaccos. The cigar is made by Nestor Plasencia in Honduras. This medium bodied cigar is earthy with notes of cedar, cocoa and pepper.
• 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
  Honduras

  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.
• Cigar Ring Gauge
  60

  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.
• Strength
  Medium
• Wrapper Color
  Colorado Maduro

  Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
  Colorado maduro wrapper is milk chocolate brown.
• Single Packaging
  Cellophane
• Rolling Type
  Handmade

  Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar Manufacturer
  Plasencia Cigars

  The Plasencia family has been in the tobacco industry for six generations. With two factories located in Nicaragua, Nestor Plasencia Sr. grows and cures tobacco, and makes millions of cigars every year for renowned brands such as Rocky Patel and Gurkha.
• Cigar Wrapper
  Ecuadorian Sumatra-Seed

  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.
• Cigar Binder
  Costa Rica

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Costa Rica has a reputation of growing excellent quality tobacco. Costa Rican maduro wrappers have become more popular in the past two decades, with the majority being dark and maduro wrappers.
• Cigar Filler
  Honduras

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

  Nicaragua

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