Romeo y Julieta 152nd Kentucky Derby Toro 6" * 52

The Romeo y Julieta 151st Kentucky Derby cigar celebrates the historic “Run for the Roses” in partnership with Churchill Downs, honoring the 151st running with a limited release of just 1,350 boxes and a handful of collectible coffins. Crafted at Tabacalera de Garcia in the Dominican Republic, it features 100% Nicaraguan tobaccos aged over five years. Like the race itself, this cigar is rich with tradition and elegance. Medium-bodied and smooth, it offers refined notes of sweet spice, dried fruit, cedar, and a velvety finish that lingers like the echo of hooves down the homestretch.

The standard Toro shape is 6 inches by 50 ring gauge.

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

This cigar is 6 inches long, or 152.4 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 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.
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.

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

Tabacos De Oriente is a cigar manufacturing facility located in Danli, Honduras. The factory is owned by Plasencia Cigars. The Alec Bradley Medalist, Flor de Selva Grand Pressé Maduro, and the Dominion Cigar Black Lotus are some of the brands produced by Tabacos De Oriente.

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
Nicaraguan cigar wrappers are produced mainly in Esteli and Jalapa, both lands with volcanic soil and excellent climate for growing tobacco. Wrappers grown in Jalapa have sweet undertones. Corojo, Habana2000, Criollo, and Maduro wrappers are all produced in Nicaragua.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
Nicaraguan cigar binders are produced mainly in Esteli and Jalapa, both lands with volcanic soil and excellent climate for growing tobacco. Binders grown in Jalapa have sweet undertones. Corojo, Habana2000, Criollo, and Maduro binders are all produced in Nicaragua.

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