Alan Rubin built the Reserve line specifically for smooth to medium smokers, and the Connecticut is the gentler of the pair — Honduran long-fillers under a Connecticut shade wrapper.
Toasted cedar against the slight vanilla creaminess Connecticut leaf does so well. Mellow, well-balanced and easy company. Five sizes including a torpedo and a six by sixty grande.
Wrapper: Connecticut shade
Binder: Honduran
Filler: Honduran long-filler
Strength: Mild to medium
Sizes: Robusto (5.0" x 50), Toro (6.0" x 50), Churchill (7.0" x 50), Grande (6.0" x 60), Torpedo (6.1" x 52)
Right for after lunch, or the cocktail hour. Or both, at this price.