Cameroon tend to be slightly spicey. If I remeber right, aren't Hemis Cameroon?
Sun Grown tend to be spicey to the tongue and pallet. Think black pepper.
Corojo tend be be very pungent in pure tobacco flavor. Some relate it to Cubans, but I am not sure.
Maduro tend to sweet and rich in flavors.
Natural and shade grown tend to be sweet and very mild.
Sumatra suck.
Rosado aren't very common.
Candela are slightly tannic and very bland.
Each wrapper grower uses different strains for different wrappers. IMO, you cant really for sure say a type wrapper tastes a certain way. This can really only be done within one line. In the above list, you have tobacco type and also special handling.
Rosado, Sumatra, Cameroon, and Corojo are types. Candela, natural, shade grown, sun grown, and maduro are the way wrappers are grown or processed. For example, Corojo and be natural or Maduro. Connecticut can be maduro, shade grown, or natural. Are you confoozerazled yet?
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Well, though I disagree with "Sumatra suck" (try a Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra) I would suggest that you go to your local tobacco shop, and try some of the same sticks with different wrappers. There are quite a few out there (HdM Excalibur, Maria Mancini are two I use to "train" college boys with) that have basically the same stick in both a Natural (Connecticut Shade) and Maduro wrapper. Once you've got the basic concepts down, then look at some of the more subtle differences between the darker wrappers.
Have all of you been to JR Cigar's "Cigar University" section and read the wealth of info there? That's where I began getting serious about learning a little beyond "I know what I like."
Here's a link.
And FYI, if you're looking to get started on your "wrapper degree", they've frequently got inexpensive five-packs or gift sets that combine several variants of the same mfg's stick, so you can become more discerning about the finish.
One last point that not a lot of smokers get, as we Americans seem obsessed with big fat cigars. If you'll notice, Cuban cigars tend to be smaller in diameter, with the corona size being consistently popular. Why? Because the BALANCE or ration between the amount of wrapper used and the amount of filler absolutely defines the taste. I'm going to do some math here, but I'll use average and super-size turkey wraps to keep your interest. Remember pi? It's the ratio of the diameter to the circumference in a circle.
Let's say you buy a 2" diameter turkey wrap. Its cross section is (pi * radius^2) equals 3.14 square inches of filler (turkey) How much wrapper? The circumference (pi * diameter) is 6.28. Mmmm.... that's a 1:2 ratio of turkey to tortilla. You can taste both.
Now a big fat 4" turkey wrap. Radius is 2", squared is 4", times pi is 12.56 square inches of filler. Diameter is 4" x pi = 12.56 linear inches. Ratio of square inches of filler to linear inches of wrapper is 1:1. So a lot less wrapper flavor vs the filler. You'd better be a turkey lover, because you're not going to be tasting the wrapper.
See how ring gauge changes the product's taste using the same blend? It's the same with cigars. So in addition to checking wrappers, consider and match the ring gauge of what you're smoking/comparing.
