Description

The Alec Bradley Chunk Shade delivers smooth flavors of tea, hay, and bready toast in a mellow medium profile. These short, stout cigars feature a Honduran-grown Connecticut Shade wrapper, a U.S. Broadleaf binder, and a filler blend from three countries. With a large ring gauge, soft but flavorful profile, this cigar gives a lot more than it takes. Alec Bradley’s Chunk line is a great pick when you want a lot without spending a lot.

Specifications

• BrandsAlec Bradley Chunk ShadeThe Alec Bradley Chunk Shade is a playful addition to the Chunk series, featuring the same short, stout format now dressed in a Honduran-grown Connecticut Shade wrapper. Handcrafted at HATSA in Danl, it uses a U.S. Broadleaf binder and a filler blend of Dominican, Honduran, and Nicaraguan tobaccos. Mild to medium in strength, it delivers creamy notes of tea leaf, hay, and toast, while still producing a surprisingly full smoke output. Chunk Shade brings a softer, more relaxed profile to the line without sacrificing the bold personality that defines the series.
• Cigar ShapeRobustoThe Robusto is a short Churchill size, traditionally 5 to 5.5 inches by a 50 ring gauge.
• Cigar SectionRoundMost cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.
• Cigar Length4″This cigar is 4 inches long, or 101.6 mm.
• OriginHondurasMost cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.Honduras, a Central American country which shares a border with Nicaragua, is widely known in the premium cigar industry as the ideal place to grow Cuban and Connecticut seed tobaccos. Danli and the Jamastran Valley is considered the heart of Honduras cigar industry. The Jamastran Valley is known for producing a full-bodied tobacco that draws strong comparisons to the tobacco grown in the Pinar del Rio region of Cuba. This same region is also known for its Connecticut shade grown and Corojo shade grown tobacco. In addition, Honduras produces Cuban-seed sun grown filler tobaccos of the highest quality.
• Cigar Ring Gauge66The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 66, so his diameter is 66/64 inches or 26.16 mm.
• Strength Medium
• Wrapper ColorNaturalCigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (MaduroorOscuro) with a full range of browns in between.Natural wrapper, also known as Colorado Claro, is light brown in color.
• Single PackagingCellophane
• Rolling TypeHandmadeHandmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar ManufacturerST GroupThe ST Group (aka the Scandinavian Tobacco Group) is one of the top manufacturers of premium handmade cigars in the world. It was founded in 1961 as the Scandinavian Tobacco Company. In 2008, the company changed its name to ST Group. Their headquarters is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition to handmade cigars, ST Group produces and sells machine made cigars, pipe tobacco, and fine cut tobacco. ST Groups main hand-crafted cigar brands include: CAO, Diesel, Macanudo, and non-Cuban production versions of Cohiba, Punch, Partagas and La Glorida Cubana. These brands are managed by General Cigar Company a subsidiary of ST Group.
• Cigar WrapperHonduran ConnecticutThe wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
• Cigar BinderUSA Connecticut BroadleafThe binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.USA Connecticut Broadleaf tobacco is grown in the Connecticut River Valley area. The soil in this region is of glacial origins. The tobacco is dark, oily, flavorful, and aromatic. It is used primarily as a maduro wrapper, but it also serves as an excellent binder.
• Cigar FillerDominican RepublicFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.Filler (or tripa in Spanish) is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar. The Dominican Republic is considered one of the most premier tobacco growing countries in the world. The filler tobacco grown in this Caribbean island nation ranges from mild to full bodied. Olor Dominicano and Piloto Cubano are the main types of tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic.HondurasFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.NicaraguaFiller is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the “guts” of the cigar.
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