Editing Cigar (section)

=== Wrapper ===
[[File:Cigar Wrapper Color Chart.jpg|thumb|alt=Cigar Wrapper Color Chart.|Darker wrappers reflect tobacco type, age, and greater fermentation]]

A cigar's outermost layer, or wrapper (Spanish: {{lang|es|capa}}), is the most expensive component of a cigar.<ref name=Bati27>Anwer Bati, ''The Cigar Companion: The Connoisseur's Guide.'' Third Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1997; p. 27.</ref> The wrapper determines much of the cigar's character and flavor, and as such its color is often used to describe the cigar as a whole. Wrappers are frequently grown underneath huge canopies made of gauze so as to diffuse direct sunlight and are fermented separately from other rougher cigar components, with a view to the production of a thinly-veined, smooth, supple leaf.<ref name=Bati27 />

Wrapper tobacco produced without the gauze canopies under which "shade grown" leaf is grown, generally more coarse in texture and stronger in flavor, is commonly known as "sun grown". A number of different countries are used for the production of wrapper tobacco, including Cuba, Ecuador, Indonesia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Mexico, [[Cameroon]], and the United States.<ref name=Bati27 />

While dozens of minor wrapper shades have been touted by manufacturers, the seven most common classifications are as follows,<ref>Richard Perelman, ''Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars.'' Perelman, Pioneer & Co., 2004; p. 12.</ref> ranging from lightest to darkest:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width=20%| Color
! width=80%| Description
|-
| Candela ("Double Claro")
| very light, slightly greenish. Achieved by picking leaves before maturity and drying quickly, the color coming from retained green [[chlorophyll]].
|-
| Claro
| very light tan or yellowish
|-
| Colorado Claro
| medium brown
|-
| Colorado ("Rosado")
| reddish-brown
|-
| Colorado Maduro
| darker brown
|-
| Maduro
| very dark brown
|-
| Oscuro ("Double Maduro")
| black
|}

Some manufacturers use an alternate designation:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Designation
!Acronym
!Description
|-
|American Market Selection
|AMS
| synonymous with Candela ("Double Claro")
|-
| English Market Selection
| EMS
| any natural colored wrapper which is darker than Candela, but lighter than Maduro<ref>[http://www.cigarbox.net/cigar-info/wrappers/ "Wrappers,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101005908/http://www.cigarbox.net/cigar-info/wrappers/ |date=1 January 2015 }} The Cigarbox.net, retrieved 20 October 2014.</ref>
|-
| Spanish Market Selection
| SMS
| one of the two darkest colors, Maduro or Oscuro
|}

In general, dark wrappers add a touch of sweetness, while light ones add a hint of dryness to the taste.<ref name=theCigar/>