Sosa Exclusive Maduro Petit Cetro 4"1/2 * 40

Sosa is one of the longest-running tobacco operations in the Dominican Republic, and the cigar industry as a whole. The Sosa Exclusive Maduro Petit Cetro is a tasty sample of the expert craftsmanship found within such impressive heritage. This full-bodied petit corona features an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper on top of Dominican binder and filler to provide a bold, complex profile containing notes of earth, coffee, leather and spice.

• Brands
  Sosa Exclusive Maduro

  For more than 100 years, the Sosa family has been making fine cigars by hand and in the Cuban tradition. The Sosa Exclusive Maduro is no exception. A full-strength, flavorful cigar, the Sosa Exclusive Maduro’s specially blended Dominican filler is a family secret that is housed in a Dominican binder which is surrounded by a bold, dark Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper. Take your smoking experience to another level with the Sosa Exclusive Maduro.
• 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
  4"1/2

  This cigar is 4"1/2 inches long, or 114.3 mm.
• Origin
  Dominican Republic

  Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
  The Dominican Republic is the world's first producer of cigars. Most factories are located in Santiago, in the center of the island, and in close proximity to the tobacco fields grown in the fertile Cibao Valley. While tobacco and cigars have always traditionally been produced in the Dominican Republic, many Cuban cigar makers established in the Dominican Republic after the Cuban communist revolution, elevating the quality of Dominican cigars.
• Cigar Ring Gauge
  40

  The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 40, so his diameter is 40/64 inches or 16 mm.
• Strength
  Full
• 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).
• Rolling Type
  Handmade

  Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar Manufacturer
  Tabacalera Fuente

  Arturo Fuente is a family owned company located in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Established in 1912 by the family patriarch Don Arturo Fuente, the company came from humble beginnings but is now a global benchmark for the cigar industry.
• Cigar Wrapper
  Ecuadorian

  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.

  Sumatra

  The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
  The Sumatra cigar wrapper is a dark leaf from the "black tobacco" sub-species family. It was first planted in the western Indonesian island of Sumatra by a Dutch explorer in the 1500s. Sumatra-seed tobacco is being cultivated in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, and Nicaragua.
• Cigar Binder
  Dominican Republic

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Dominican Republic is a traditional tobacco-growing country. In the 60's, a Cuban seed was introduced and the resulting tobacco, called Piloto Cubano, became famous as a good substitute of the Cuban tobacco that was no longer allowed to enter the USA. Piloto Cubano is full bodied while the Dominican Olor tobacco is milder but more aromatic.
• Cigar Filler
  Dominican Republic

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