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Ring Size is the width of your cigar.  You can get an idea of how thick your cigar is by taking the the ring size and dividing it by 64.  This will give you the width in inches.  A cigar with a ring size of 64 would be one inch in diameter.  A cigar with a ring size of 32 would be a half of an inch (32/64). 

Try to select a cigar with a larger ring size if you tend to have a heavy draw.  A smaller ringed cigar will tend to taste harsh if your draw is heavy.  This is because you are scorching your smoke.  Even the finest cigar won't taste proper if you don't know your draw.

Cigars such as Gigantes or Presidentes are the largest cigars, they have ring sizes that can be as high as one inch.  The Demitasse are the smallest and have ring sizes as small as thirty.

There are countless cigar sizes. Cuba alone produces 69, 42 of which are handmade Havanas. Each has a factory name, which usually bears no relationship to the name by which we know them, like Prominete (Double Corona), Julieta 2 (Churchill), Mareva (Petit Corona), Francisano, Carolina and so on. Some brands, Partagas, for example, have 40 sizes, though several are machine-made. This is a throwback to the past when many selections were even larger. More modern brands such as Cohiba and Montecristo have just 11 sizes. Non-Havana brands tend to offer more manageable lines, although many, like Davidoff, which now boasts 19 sizes, have started to grow.

The girth of a cigar is customarily expressed in terms of its ring guage in 1/64ths of an inch. Thus, if a cigar has a ring quage of 49, it is 49/64 ths of an inch thick. Similarly, if a cigar has a ring guage of 64, it would be an inch thick. Only a couple come into this size today, the 9-inch long Royal Jamaica Goliath, and the same length Jose Benito Magnum from the Dominican Republic. The Casa Blanca Jeroboam and Half Jeroboam come with a whopping 66 ring guage.

The largest properly smokable cigar made was Koh-i-Noor, made before World War II by Henry Clay for a maharaja. The same size, called the Visible Inmenso (18 inches long, 47 ring guage) was made for King Farouk of Egypt. There was also once a pantela measuring 19.5 inches. At the Partagas factory in Havana, they keep a collector's item: a cigar measuring almost 50 inches. You can also see a cigar a yard long with a ring guage of 96 kept at the Davidoff store in London.

Listed below are the 25 most popular Havana sizes under their factory names. This may serve to indicate just how wide a selection is avaliable, but it merely scratches the surface of the full panoply of choice offered by Cuba, let alone the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico and others:

Basic Havana Sizes

* These sizes, having pointed heads, are often referred to as "torpedoes." This name suggests, incorrectly, that they should be pointed at both ends. Cigars which are pointed at both ends are termed "Figuerados."

Other Cigar Styles and Sizes

All cigars can be divided into two broad categories by their shape. Parejos, which have straight sides, and Figurados, which include all "irregular" shapes.

Parejos include 3 basic divisions, by the relative proportion of their dimensions. There's Coronas (a broad category including Coronas, Dbl. Coronas, Presidentes, Robustos, and Churchills). All Coronas are characterized by an open "foot" and a rounded "head". Next are the Panatelas. Longer than coronas, these are generally considerably thinner. The third division is Lonsdales - thicker than Panatelas, but generally longer than Coronas.

(confused yet? - good!)

Figuardos, or "irregular" shaped Cigars are a little better defined. The smallest is the Belicoso - a small tapered cigar with a rounded head (not pointed) and a larger foot. Next are the Pyramids, tapering from a large foot to a small head. A "true" pyramid always has a pointed head. Although many smokers call a large pyramid a torpedo, a "true" torpedo has a large foot, smaller, pointed head, and a slight bulge in the middle. The Perfecto is tapered on both ends to a smaller size than it's straight middle section - a classic "cigar shape". Finally, there's the Diademas, the giant of cigars. These are 8 inches or greater. (hmmmm - does that make the Aliados General a "Diademas-and-a-half"?)

Cigar size names did originally specify the exact physical size and shape of cigars. After a dozen decades of manufacturers "individualizing" their cigars, these original standards are long gone. As far as I know, only Cuban manufacturer's have stayed with these original standard sizes. Whether Upman, Partagas, or Cohiba produces it, a Habana Corona is still Corona sized....

Here's a list of standard sizes:

Cigar Sizes

• BELICOSO (6.5" x 52)
• CHURCHILL (7" x 47)
• CORONA (5.5" x 42)
• CORONA GORDA (6"-6.5" x 52)
• CORONA GRANDE (6"-6.5" x 46-50)
• CORONA LARGA (6.5" x 46-50)
• CORONA MAJOR (6" x 44-46)
• DEMITASSE (3.5"-5.25" x 26-50)
• DOUBLE CORONA (7.5"-8.5" x 49-52)
• GIGANTE (7"-7.5" x 54-60)
• LONG PANATELA (6.75"-7.75" x 30-38)
• LONSDALE (6.5" x 42)
• LONSDALE GRANDE (6.5"-7" x 44)
• PANATELA (5"-6.5" x 28-38)
• PARODI (3.5" x 36)
• PERFECTO (Tapered Head and Foot)
• PETIT CORONA (5" x 40-42)
• PRESIDENTE (7.5"-8" x 52)
• PYRAMID (6" Tapered Head to Oversize Foot)
• ROBUSTO (6" x 48-50)
• ROBUSTO GRANDE (6.5" x 48-50)
• ROTHSCHILD (4.5"-5.5" x 48-50)
• THIN PANATELA (5"-6.5" x 24-26)
• TOSCANI (7" x 36)

  The first dimension is the length of the cigar in inches. The second is the ring gauge of the cigar or the diameter of the cigar measured in 64ths of an inch. So a Churchill is about 7 inches long and 3/4 of an inch in diameter

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