- Connecticut's 1DW Maduro broadleaf excels as a cigar wrap in taste, seals down smooth, cuts clean, and leaves the cigar with a mildly rustic texture.

- While it may look like a rugged fellow, it acts like a gentleman. Good, clean, white ash, and great in all circumstances - from parlor to porch!

- Velvet leaf moistens quickly and unfolds smoothly.

- Veins were some-what large (as expected in a maduro) but rolled flat with a rolling pin without tearing the leaf.

- As a filler: it's bold, strong, and smooth.

- As a binder: it has strong holding power, but has definite vein lines when rolled.

- Because this leaf is picked from the very top of the CT broad leaf plant, the leaves tend to be smaller than average tobacco leaves, but what it lacks in size, it makes up in flavor!