Question about Cuban wrappers

You will never see a Cuban Cameroon. Cameroon is a wrapper that is grown in Africa.

Cubans are Puros.

Cuban Filler
Cuban Binder
Cuban Wrapper

You would not say though that all Cubans taste the same. Some wrappers are darker and/or more oily. How 2 identical wrappers are cured will effect the flavor greatly just the same as two identical seeds planted in different parts of the country.

The answer is based upon ones deffinition of the term "basically the same" IMHO. I would say no they are not basically the same even though they are not typed as wrappers grown in different countries are.

Hope that helps.

Cuba does have a Maduro wrapper.
It is used on cigars marked Edition LImitada.

Maduro wrappers outside of cuba are often cooked,
or heated to darken the wrapper leaves.
In Cuba the Maduro wrapper is created by keeping the wrapper leaves in the center of bail of tobacco (which gets warm) a much longer process.
than how it is done outside Cuba.

That said -- there is current debate over weather Cuba has been cooking tobacco for their new "EL" cigars.

Other than that - the same cigar in two differnt boxes can have a great difference in color.
Boxes are sorted by color so all cigars in one box are close in color.

CC hit the nail on the head. Maduro is actually referred to properly as a plant priming in Cuba. It is the top or Corona leaves on the plant and they are extra fermented. That is why the EL usually as such a nice and rich flavor.

That said, what you are reffering to are actually the names of seeds. When Cuba does open up, I would imagine new growers might experiment with Cameroon, Sumatra, or Connecticut grown in Cuba, but most likely things will continue as they are today.

Cuban cigars historically used two seeds when growing, Criollo (mainly used for filler and binder) or corojo seed (mainly yields the wrapper). Over time these seeds grew susceptable to diseases like blue mold and black shank. Today, these seeds have been engineered to resist disease and the main seeds are Habana 2000 and Criollo 98. Corojo is very seldom still used in Cuba but is in some instances. That seed is commonly reffered to as Corojo 99.