[Westbury Square Cigar Shop / WestburySquare.Com]
[Westbury Square Cigar Shop / WestburySquare.Com]
We stock a full line of handmade cigars, as well as a large selection of accessories. Browse our site and check out our great tobacco products.

We hope that you will join us at the shop. You are always welcome to enjoy a fine cigar seated in comfort in our spacious facility. You are also welcome to bring your favorite libation and experience a calm afternoon of pleasure.

What is ring gauge and how is it measured?

Ring size is the cigar's diameter, measured in 64ths of an inch. Thus a 32 ring cigar will measure 1/2 inch in diameter. Click here to see the ring gauge guide.

We do not sell tobacco products to minors. If you are under 18 years old, please do not enter our site.

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[Westbury Square Cigar Shop / WestburySquare.Com] Cigar Size

Cigar sizes are presented on inches for the length followed by a number - the ring size. This means that if a cigar is ring guage 44, the cigar thickness or diameter is 44/100's of an inch.

You can find smaller cigars of ring guage 26 to the larger ones produced today over an inch - ring guage 66.

Cigar Shape

Cigars can be divided on two categories: those with straight sides - Parejos - and those with irregular shapes - Figurados.

Parejos are the most common cigars, those that the majority of smokers are most familiar with. In this category you can find most of the cigar sizes usually found on the market - Coronas, Churchills, Robustos, Double Coronas, Panatelas, Londsdales.

Figurados, the ones with irregular shapes, can be recognized by the following types:

  • Pyramid - have a pointed closed end and widens to an open foot.
  • Torpedo - also with a pointed head, has a more closed foot.
  • Perfecto - has both heads closed.
  • Culebra - has three panatelas twisted together.
  • Diademas - is a big cigar with eight inches, with one or both heads closed like perfecto.

    • Cigar Color

    Cigar colors are determined by the outside leaf - the wrapper - and are generally divided into six different categories.

  • Maduro Dark Brown:
    like black coffee. Traditional Havana color, with a rich flavor, sweet taste.
  • Colorado Maduro Dark Brown:
    aromatic, with a rich flavor, used on the best Honduran cigars.
  • Colorado Reddish Dark Brown:
    aromatic, used by Cameroon wrappers on well matured cigars.
  • Colorado Claro Medium Brown:
    used on some Dominican Republic brands.
  • Claro Pale Brown:
    also called natural, neutral flavor, used on Connecticut shade wrappers.
  • Double Claro Greenish Brown:
    called candela and AMS - American Market Standard, with wrappers that haven't achieved maturity. Very mild, bland.

    • Westbury Square Cigar Shop
    Cliff Tomplait -- Proprietor
    5425 W. Bellfort
    638A Westbury Square
    Houston, Texas 77035
    713-723-7200
    E-Mail:
    cigars@WestburySquare.Com
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