Pin-stripe cigars...

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Originally Posted by kickerb

what is a pin-striped cigar?

Originally Posted by N2 GOLD

A cigar that employs two wrappers in one cigar. Similar, to the CAO America

Originally Posted by awsmith4

The are more often referred to as barber pole cigars. A cigar with two wrappers

Taboo Cigars has one called the Twist that was a good smoke. Its only available through his store I believe.

As far as where to get them online, the various LGCs are available at shops like Cigars International and Famous. I believe Joya De Nicaragua makes one as well.

A bit of clarification is needed here as multiple styles are getting incorrectly mixed up in the given explanations...


Barber poles are the ones with with generally equal size helical stripes of capa wrapped around the cigar. Like this:


off the top of my head some barber pole cigars:
Taboo Twist
Felipe Gregorio Dos Capas
Felipe Gregorio Tres Capas
ITC Split Decision
Some Camacho Liberties
CAO Britalia Barber Pole
Arturo Fuente Hemingway Between the Lines
etc...

Pinstriped cigars are an offshoot of barberpoles, except that rather than roughly equal sized bands, one is just a pinstripe. IIRC CAO America was the first to do this exclusively (and still the only one I believe).


Barberpole and pinstripes are rolled that way, two or more wrappers are cut and overlapped, then rolled around the cigar to create the effect.


Then you have cigars that employ both such as the Sol Cubano Artisan L.E.:


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