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Cigar bands are often printed with the name of the brand, country of origin, and/or indication that the cigar is hand-rolled. They often have colorful graphics, which have made them a popular collectors item.     Barrel - The main body of the cigar.     Binder – A tough, coarse leaf that goes around the filler, holding it in place.     Blend - The mix tobacco in a cigar, including up to five types of filler leaves, a binder leaf and an outer wrapper.     Boite Nature - The cedar box in which many cigars are sold.     Book Style (also, Booking) - A rolling method by which the cigar maker lays the filler leaves atop one another, then rolls them up like a scroll. Book style, or booking, is common in Honduras. The alternate style is based on the old Cuban method called entubar.     Bouquet - The smell or nose of a fine cigar.     Box - The container used to package cigars.     Box pressure – The tight packaging of cigars pressed in such a manner that they retain a slightly square shape.     Bunch - Up to four different types of filler tobacco blended to create the body of the cigar. The bunch is held together by the binder.     Bundle – A method of packaging cigars in groups of 10 or 25, rather than using a box; generally wrapped in plastic to save money and less expensive than boxed cigars.   Top                     Candela - A bright green shade of wrapper, achieved by a heat-curing process that fixes the chlorophyll content of the wrapper while it's still in the barn. Also referred to as double claro.     Cap – The tip section of the cigar where a leaf of tobacco is carefully applied to the head preventing the wrapper from unraveling.     Capa - The cigar's wrapper (also called the binder).     Case - A cigar case serves as a mobile humidor, protecting cigars from damage and the outside environment while they are being carried around.     Chaveta - The semi-circular blade used in a cigar factory for cutting the wrapper leaf.     Cheroot – A small cigar.     Cigar Drill – Type of cigar cutter used to drill a hole in the head; also known as a pinhole cutter     Cigarillo – A small cigar made from cigar-leaf tobacco containing short filler to promote proper, even burning.     Claro – A light-colored wrapper; usually mild.     Culebra - A cigar made of three Panetelas braided together.     Cutter – A device used to remove or puncture the cap of tobacco used to seal the tip of a cigar.   Top                     Draw - The flow of smoke from a cigar.   Top                     Entubar - A rolling method originating in Cuba where the roller folds each individual filler leaf back on itself, then bunches the leaves together; generally thought to create superior air flow through the cigar resulting in a more even draw and burn.   Top                     Fermentation – The process of placing air-cured tobacco leaves in large piles allowing them to heat up; releases many chemicals and impurities that could ruin the tobacco’s flavor.     Filler - The main ingredient comprising the bulk of the cigar and affecting its strength; cigars are made with either long filler (made of long tobacco leaves) or short filler (made of leaves, stems, and other scraps of tobacco generated by a machine).     Finish - A tasting term, which refers to the taste that lingers on your palate after a puff. Mild cigars do not have much finish, either in terms of length or complexity, but stronger, more full-bodied cigars have distinctive flavors that linger.     Flag – see cap     Foot - The end of the cigar that is lit.   Top                     Habana - A designation which, when inscribed on a cigar band, indicates that a cigar is Cuban.     Handmade - A cigar made entirely by hand, instead of machines, with high-quality wrapper and long filler; all premium cigars are handmade.     Head – see cap.     Heat curing – Accelerating the natural drying process of tobacco using heat.     Homogenized Binder – Pulverized and reconstituted tobacco blended with natural blenders; used as a wrapper for a number of cigarillos.     Humidor - A container designed for storing cigars or other tobacco products at a constant level of humidity.     Hygrometer - A device that measures the level of relative humidity (percentage of moisture in the air).   Top                     Long Filler - Filler tobacco that runs the length of the body of the cigar, rather than chopped pieces found in machine-made cigars.   Top                     Machine-made - Cigars made entirely by machine, using heavier-weight wrappers and binders and short filler.     Maduro - A very dark brown cigar; generally considered the traditional Cuban cigar color.   Top                     Pinhole cutter – see cigar drill.     Planchas - Boards on which tobacco leaves are spread before fermentation.