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The wrapper makes up most of the flavor, while the other ingredients might embolden those flavors or add more. For instance, a Maduro cigar will taste different than a Connecticut or a Criollo.

Another cigar called “The Boss” has a five-year-old Mexican San Andres maduro wrapper, a Nicaraguan binder, and its filler is a blend of handpicked Nicaraguan Cuban-seed tobacco.

That initial release featured a blend of Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers tobacco, a Honduran binder, and a caramel brown Ecuador Connecticut wrapper leaf. Another cigar called “The Boss” has a ...