Size Dept: More than you ever thought possible...

Is a smoke (Rudyard Kipling). Smoking has been around since the beginning of time but insofar as more recent times the home of both rum and cigars - a wonderful combination - remains the Caribbean. If you can't find a Cuban, you might try an expatriate smoke like one from Gran Papi Rodriguez and Family in Key West.
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Size Dept: More than you ever thought possible...

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Yowza! In the home and origin of fine cigars, you would be surprised...


To know - that just like the Eskimos have many different names for small differences in snow - the Cuban have an amazing array of named sizes, to wit:
  • Vitola Length (in) Ring gauge

    Gran Corona 9 1/4 47
    Prominentes 7 5/8 49
    Laguito Especial (pigtail) 7 1/2 40
    Laguito No. 1 (pigtail) 7 1/2 38
    Delicados 7 1/2 38
    Delicados Extra 7 1/2 36
    Paco 7 1/8 49
    Julieta #2 7 47
    Ninfas 7 33
    Panetelas Largas 6 7/8 28
    Dalias 6 3/4 43
    Palmas 6 3/4 33
    Hermosos #1 6 5/8 48
    Cervantes 6 1/2 42
    Parejos 6 1/2 38
    Cazadores 6 3/8 43
    Deliciosos 6 1/4 33
    Dobles (pigtail) 6 1/8 50
    Coronas Grandes 6 1/8 42
    Cazadores JLP 6 43
    Laguito No. 2 6 38
    Palmitas 6 32
    Canonazo 5 3/4 52
    Exquisitos 5 3/4 46
    Conservas 5 3/4 43
    Cristales 5 3/4 41
    Corona Gordas 5 5/8 46
    Franciscos 5 5/8 44
    Coronas 5 5/8 42
    Carlotas 5 5/8 35
    Genios 5 1/2 52
    Conservas JLP 5 1/2 44
    Nacionales 5 1/2 41
    Cremas 5 1/2 40
    Edmundo 5 3/8 52
    Dalias Cortas 5 3/8 43
    Cosacos 5 3/8 42
    Cremas JLP 5 3/8 40
    Coloniales (pigtail) 5 1/4 44
    Nacionales JLP (134mm) 5 1/4 42
    Brevas JLP (133mm) 5 1/4 42
    Eminentes (132mm) 5 1/4 42
    Gordito 5 1/5 50
    Marevas 5 1/8 42
    Petit Coronas 5 1/8 42
    Almuerzos (139mm) 5 1/8 40
    Petit Cetros (138mm) 5 1/8 40
    Hermosos #4 5 48
    Londres 5 40
    Belvedere 5 39
    Petit Cetros JLP 5 38
    Vegueritos 5 36
    Conchitas 5 35
    Placeras 5 34
    Seoane 5 33
    Standard 4 7/8 40
    Petit Edmundo 4 3/4 52
    Carolinas 4 3/4 29
    Robustos (117mm) 4 5/8 50
    Coronitas (116mm) 4 5/8 40
    Franciscanos 4 5/8 40
    Sports 4 5/8 35
    Magicos 4 1/2 52
    Cadetes 4 1/2 36
    Laguito No. 3 4 1/2 26
    Minutos 4 3/8 42
    Reyes (pigtail) 4 3/8 40
    Secretos 4 3/8 40
    Trabucos 4 3/8 38
    Epicures 4 3/8 35
    Petit Cazadores 4 1/8 43
    Petit Robustos 4 50
    Perlas 4 40
    Entreactos 4 30
Aye carumba! But here in the States we are working with monkeys, so the sizes have been simplified for us into a much smaller number of common sizes:
  • Name Length Ring Gauge

    Corona 5 ½ to 6 42 to 45
    Panatela 5 ½ to 6 ½ 34 to 38
    Lonsdale 6 to 6 ½ 42 to 44
    Lancero 7 to 7 ½ 38 to 40
    Churchill 6 ½ to 7 46 to 48
    Robusto 4 ½ to 5 48 to 50
    Toro 6 to 6 ½ 48 to 50
    Presidente 7 to 8 ½ 52 to 60
    Gigante > 6 > 60
    Torpedo
    (Cone Shaped Head) 5 ½ to 6 ½ 46 to 52
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