Corto X46 Maduro

A stronger Corto

Warped Cigars has announced it will be releasing the Corto Maduro X46, a 4 1/2 x 46 Rothschild composed of a Mexican San Andrés wrapper covering a binder and filler made up of Nicaraguan tobacco. In addition, medio tiempo tobacco has been added to the cigar to increase the blend’s body and strength.

Medio tiempo is a priming of tobacco—the word refers to the way a plant is divided into sections vertically—that is found above the ligero priming, typically the highest priming.

It’s only found on certain plants and only some growers go through the effort of classifying it separately from ligero. Given its position on the plant, if a plant has medio tiempo tobacco growing on it, that tobacco should be the strongest tobacco from that plant.