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Hello everyone. I'm Tyler Caldwell with Smokingpipes, and today I want to talk to you about a little cigar known as the Culebra.
As you can see here, it's an interesting-looking cigar. It is actually known for being the Spanish term for a snake, which makes sense because it's kind of squirmy and all over the place when you look at it up close. So a little background of the Culebra: normally it's going to be a Panatela size; more companies use a Lancero size when they're making one these days.
Typically, it's going to be three cigars rolled into one, which, once you look at one, is going to be very obvious, right? So Culebras are purposely underfilled and over-moistened, just so as they're rolling these cigars together, it gives them a little bit more construction to fold into each other, as you can see with the presentation here. Also a note with these bad boys right here: You can see they have some ribbons tying the foot and more toward the cap area.
Traditionally, the reason that is there — think of when they're bunching cigars, putting binders, everything — they're putting cigars into a mold so that they can hold their place, and that's kind of their way of molding cigars together with the ribbon. Sometimes it's twine, sometimes it's rolled-up cigar leaves wrapped around it to give it that nice shape and construction, as you see.
So let's get into how exactly you smoke one of these things. Like I said before, this is typically going to be three cigars rolled into one. I highly suggest against trying to cut and smoke this all at one time. From past experience, it does not work very well. Ideally what you want to do is take off these ribbons here; think of it as a sharing moment with you and two very important people with you. You can sit there, you can take it apart, you give it to your two counterparts, and you just smoke something that's completely different than you've probably ever smoked before.
As you can see, this particular Culebra is made by Caldwell Cigar Company. It's known as the Antoinette, part of the Craft and Curated series. If you have never smoked a Culebra before, this one is going to be nice and smooth with a mild-to-medium body. It's a very interesting cigar to smoke and I highly suggest grabbing one of these guys and trying it out.
That is it for me today. On Smokingpipes, we do have a very interesting blog post about Culebras. It will give you a little bit more detail with a deeper dive into the history, and I definitely suggest checking it out if you're interested in learning more about Culebras on Smokingpipes.
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Fascinating post about Culebras! These unique cigars are such a great piece of cigar history, with their distinctive braided appearance and intriguing origin story.