ring size

Diameter.

Oh, . With a larger ring gauge, the roller/blender will be able to fit more tobacco in the cigar, giving the stick a "broader horizon" so to speak, of flavor. Also, a larger ring gauge will burn cooler.

In relation to the larger ring cigars burning cooler, I find that cooler burning cigars have more flavor...

filler tobacco is less flavorful. the wrapper accounts for up to 80% of a cigars flavor. so the smaller the ring the more the flavor because of its proportion to the filler. they say if you want to really taste what a cigar is supposed to taste like, you should smoke the corona or lonsdale sizes.

Let's be sure we don't make the common mistake of misunderstanding the words "diameter" and "circumference." I have a cigar video made by one of the world's biggest companies, and starring a Cuban expatriat topflight cigar maker, executive and industry personality. Even in this video, the incorrect term "circumference" is given as ring size.

As one poster correctly observed, "diameter" is the correct term for ring size, but diameter is NOT the "size around" of the cigar. Ring size, or diameter is size ACROSS. A ring size of 48, found on many Churchill sized cigars, means 3/4 of an inch, because ring size goes according to 64th's of an inch. A cigar with a ring gauge of 64 means it measures exactly one inch across the widest point of the cigar.

Macallan said:

filler tobacco is less flavorful. the wrapper accounts for up to 80% of a cigars flavor. so the smaller the ring the more the flavor because of its proportion to the filler. they say if you want to really taste what a cigar is supposed to taste like, you should smoke the corona or lonsdale sizes.

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No kidding... :roll: I have had it wrong the whole time!!!

My experience has been that a larger ring size has an easier draw, although my experience has been mainly limited to coronas and robustos.
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In my opinion, larger gauges do indeed have more flavors. Those flavors though come from the tars that get guilt up that you draw through.

I think I would have to agree with you there quag. Smaller cigars can get harsher quicker because you tend to burn more with each puff. It is easier to heat them up to much, and so in my eairlier experiances with them they were a little stronger than thicker cigars.

I am going to have to revisit some of my rookie cigars now and see if this has changed with my experiance. Right now though, one of my fav cigars is a smaller one, the Brazilia Pirahanna. They are just tastey!