Dark wrapper=strong?

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Originally Posted by c.ortiz108

All correct.... However, cigar manufacturers often exploit the myth, using super dark wrappers on strong cigars, as if to reinforce a connection. I'm thinking Camacho, Partagas, and DE. Sure, it's partly for flavor but obviously marketing strategy, too.

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And it certainly has proven to work for them.

So I got a Camacho triple Maduro, is that going to whoop my ass? Thats the last of my non infused sticks. might look into gt a a 5er or 2 of mild ones just so I have something different than infused.

Strength will increase as you go from the lower leaves (volado) to the higher priming leaves (seco, ligero). The Oliva V is triple ligero, so try that if you want to feel like you've been kicked by a coked-out mule.

Ackshully... the over-fermenting that produces maduro leaves slightly reduces the nicotine content (or so I've read on the internet which never lies).

But as a poster upstairs pointed out, the commercial blenders do tend to put stronger leaves into maduro wrappers.

OTOH (there's always another hand), leaves that are darker from being closest to the sun, i.e., the top leaves, ligero, are stronger both in flavor and vitamin N. Yes, the dreaded triple maduro could make Chuck Norris cry.

@cbr310 , a good example of a light wrapper cigar that'll bust your butt is the Sucker Punch by Punch. It's exactly that, a sucker punch in a Connecticut wrapper. On the other end off the spectrum, some mild, easy smoking maduros are:
Macanudo maduro
Graycliff G2 maduro
Brick House maduro

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Originally Posted by BlueDevil07

The Oliva V is triple ligero,.

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I never found the Vs to be strong at all. Remember Full bodied doesn't necessary mean it will be a nicotine bomb.

You want a nicotine bomb? Smoke a La Flor Dominicana double ligero chisel.

either the nat or mad will give you the retard shakes if you dont prepare before hand.

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Originally Posted by Shemp Jizzle

I never found the Vs to be strong at all. Remember Full bodied doesn't necessary mean it will be a nicotine bomb.

You want a nicotine bomb? Smoke a La Flor Dominicana double ligero chisel.

either the nat or mad will give you the retard shakes if you dont prepare before hand.

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I need to try another V. I think my tolerance to nicotine wasn't nearly as high then as it is now.

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Originally Posted by cbr310

So I got a Camacho triple Maduro, is that going to whoop my ass? Thats the last of my non infused sticks. might look into gt a a 5er or 2 of mild ones just so I have something different than infused.

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If you normally smoke milder cigars then you will feel that Triple Maduro. I usually smoke fuller cigars and that one still sneaks up on me.