Question of the Year:

Q. What is the difference between the term "vitola" and the "name" of a cigar?

A. Vitola. - Each one of the different formats that a cigar can adopt according to its length, thickness and shape.

Vitola de galera. - Name that is used in the cigar factories to distinguish each one of the vitolas that are being manufactured, independently of the name they can be given later on, according to the commercial brand to which they belong.
-- Rafael Bernardo (Madrid, Spain)
http://www.mycigarsite.com/glossary/glossary.htm

[posted by Rafael Bernardo, in alt.smokers.cigars, 01-09-01].

Notable Quotables:

"Know this about coolerdors: if you build it, they will come. If you don't build it, they will come anyway and you will have no place to put them." -- D. Manz 5/28/2000

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