The Big Ring Gauge Trend

Recently we saw a change in the cigar size trend.  Double Toro, Gordo, Gigante, Sixty – call those the way you want – big ring gauges are the new big thing. 60-ring….and beyond….are appearing up in virtually every cigar line and they’re selling like crazy.
We have our Alec Bradley Black Market Gordo for a week that our box is almost finished just by sticks sales.
You would think it’s an obvious choice. Substantially more tobacco, marginally more expensive. It’s originally part of the American mindset that bigger is better, and often it is. But in the case of cigars, bigger isn’t necessarily better, just different.

Big ring cigars do offer some real benefits. They naturally burn longer; they burn much cooler, and pump out volumes of thick smoke. You can puff on a 60-ring until your face turn blue and it probably won’t burn hot or harsh. And then there’s the whole ‘best bang for your buck’ thing. Pound for pound, or weight vs. cost, big ring cigars are usually the best buy. But tobacco doesn’t work that way. Filler tobaccos are significantly less expensive than the wrapper, which is why smaller ring and bigger ring cigars, despite their size difference, maintain a somewhat similar price. They both utilize a comparable amount of wrapper leaf. Leading to my next point; smaller ring cigars have a much more favorable wrapper to filler ratio. So the big ring will have a lesser overall quality of leaf as it is mostly constituted of filler. Maybe one of the reason for the Cohiba Panatela (4 ½ x 26) to be so pricey.

We do offer a few 60 x 6 which is starting to be a great seller

1) Zino Platinum Barrel Tubos - $448 / stick

2) Alec Bradley Black Market Gordo - $150 / stick

3) Padron Series 7000 - $177 / stick

I looked around the web to find out the extreme and i discovered that cigar maker were enough crazy to come up with a 133 1/3 x 10. It is called the CroMagnon Femur by RoMa Craft Tobac.




This is what i call a Jawbreaker, you maybe able to get it in your mouth but not sure you will be able to remove it without tearing it apart.







Their First "draft" was an astonishing 500 x 10, then they reduced to 215 x 10 before they settle to the current size.Only 200 were made as it was very hard for them to find 200 suitable wrapper leaves for these cigars. Price is USD 50 / stick (US market where a high end cigar is around USD20)







^{So if you want to know what is all this fuzz about, then come to The Wall of Cigar to try our Padron 7000 or Alec Bradley Black Market Gordo !}