Making Cigar Wrappers

Video Transcript

"Now, in this clip we're going to talk about wrapper. Now, when you get wrapper it usually comes in what they call tamp. Now, this is how they ferment it in the barn, it's usually hanging on a stick for a while until it turns brown. When they get it to the table, when they get it in the factory they actually sort it out by color usually, or they actually do it after they wrap the cigar and they color sort them after they're dry. Now, as you can tell, it's tied together. There's quite a few leaves in this tamp. Deveining is usually done by a machine now to speed up the process, but the old-fashioned way of deveining is pretty much the way I do it. Now, the ways to devein a tobacco leaf in the old-fashioned method; you fold the leaf in half and you grab the vein, you start pulling it out and you hold the top and you make a fist around the top. Just wrap it around your wrist. In doing that, you just yank out the vein. That leaves you with two wrapper leaves -- one and two."