About this cigar
Made in Nicaragua, the JR Cigars Alternative CAO Gold Churchill comes in the Churchill format: 178 mm long with a 48 ring gauge (19 mm). Tobaccos: wrapper Connecticut and filler Secret. Strength: medium; smoking time about 107 minutes. It is one of 181 sizes in the Alternative line. Noted flavors: cream, spice and cedar.
JR Cigars, the Honduran house, presents the CAO Gold Churchill within its Alternative line, a 178 mm churchill with a 48 ring gauge wrapped in Connecticut. Its filler, whose blend the house keeps deliberately secret, comes from Nicaragua and gives it a medium strength that will suit aficionados seeking balance and character.
Specifications
- Brand
- JR Cigars
- Line
- Alternative
- Vitola
- Alternative CAO Gold Churchill
- Size
- Churchill
- Length
- 178 mm · 7.01″
- Ring gauge
- 48 · 19.0 mm
- Wrapper
- Connecticut
- Wrapper shade
- Colorado
- Filler
- Secret
- Country of manufacture
- 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
- Smoking time
- About 107 min

JR Cigars
Honduras, Founded in 1971, 483 cigarsJR Cigars is an American house founded in New York by Lew Rothman, which grew into one of the leading names in the U.S. cigar business. Its own-brand range, the JR Alternative Cigars, offers a wide selection of vitolas, with Dominican, Honduran and Nicaraguan versions in different wrappers and strengths.
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