Instead, lower primings (seco and viso) from a particularly robust harvest were used exclusively throughout the blend.
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With Fume D’Amour, Dion’s blending skills are on full display, making use of a unique blend that forgoes ligero-a tobacco priming typically incorporated for flavor and strength. The company is known for their Nicaraguan puro blends, guided by founder Dion Giolito and his notoriously “pitch-perfect” palate. Illusione is one of the most recognized names in the arena of craft/boutique operations, maintaining a strict standard of small-batch production since their beginnings in 2006. Expect a more intense profile than your average Connecticut, offering flavors of peanut butter, cocoa, cedar, white pepper, vanilla, and Nutella. This makes for long smoke times, even in cigars of this size. RoMa Craft and their Nica Sueño factory are known for rolling sturdy/weighty cigars, bunching high amounts of tobacco while maintaining an easy draw. The cigars feature an exposed foot and a unique blend of Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers, an Indonesian binder, and an Ecuador Connecticut wrapper. The cigar’s name is an abbreviation, meaning Ecuador Connecticut 18-detailing the cigar’s wrapper and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (with the Intemperance concept playing on the theme of prohibition in the U.S.). And while both blends offer the petit-sized 4″ x 46 vitola, we find the light-shade Intemperance EC XVIII to perform exceptionally well. At launch, Intemperance consisted of eight cigars: two different blends with four sizes apiece. RoMa Craft Tobac’s Intemperance lineup was launched in 2012, marking the first official brand under RoMa Craft since debuting earlier in the year (although the company’s CroMagnon line was launched a year prior, before RoMa was an official entity). Cult Cigars has become known for unorthodox blends and sizes and the Blood Red Moon seems to have struck a winning combination, offering a medium body and enjoyable flavors of red pepper, cake doughnut, nuts, and cedar.
The cigars use Nicaraguan long-filler, a Nicaraguan binder, and an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper (also arriving in Connecticut and Maduro-wrapped versions). Made by Cult Cigars at the TACASA factory in Nicaragua (known for private label and affordable smoking experiences) Blood Red Moon has become a popular choice for providing good flavor in an affordable/portable package-costing around 10¢ per minute of smoking enjoyment. This allows for more variety on the list. natural and maduro), we’ve included only our preference of the two (or more). Additionally, for cigars on this list with similar versions available (e.g. Cigars that were included in the original article have been excluded from this list. Note: while our previous article-The 20 Best Small Cigars-lumped all “small cigars” together, this article is more precise, showing only petit coronas. Moving up in size, you begin to find the more common (higher) price points and smoking times of coronas, robustos, and Rothschilds, etc.
Moving down in size, you begin to enter cigarillo territory, where cigars are often (but not always) machine-made. To generalize, petit coronas are essentially the smallest format you’ll find in the average lineup of premium cigars. For the sake of this article, we’ll expand the guidelines of the petit corona to include lengths of 3½” to 5″ and ring gauges of 36 to 46. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing-we consumers only have so much patience for continuously evolving lexicon of cigar terminology. But, as with many other vitolas, the modern renditions tend to push the boundaries, with a plethora of “little cigars” and a wider range of sizes entering the market under the petit corona label. Following this logic, the petit corona is simply a miniaturized version, traditionally sized at roughly 5″ x 42.
Traditionally, the corona is the size by which all others are measured (despite today’s gravitation towards the robusto), ranging in size from 5½” to 6″ and a ring gauge of 42. Previously, Cigar Dojo crunched the numbers to tally 20 of our favorite small cigars, including cigarillos, petits, machine-mades, hand-rolled, flavored cigars, or anything else one would consider “small.” This proved to be quite the popular topic with smokers-enough so that we’ve decided to showcase another 20, this time homing in on petit coronas.