Corto Maduro X46

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Blog post of review: https://tinytimblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/warped-corto-maduro-x46-4-12-x-46.html

(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)
In 2016, Warped Cigars added a second size to its Corto line: a small 4 1/2 x 46 petite corona called the X46. A decade later, the company released a second X46, this time with a darker wrapper and a stronger blend.

The Corto Maduro X46 keeps the 4 1/2 x 46 box-pressed Rothschild shape, but the tobaccos are not identical. When Warped introduced Corto, it said it was the company’s first full-bodied blend, one made entirely of Nicaraguan tobacco. For Corto Maduro, the most notable change is that it uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper. While the filler blend is all-Nicaraguan, the Corto Maduro gets some added medio tiempo tobacco, designed to make the cigar stronger.

Medio tiempo is a priming, not a seed. In the field, tobacco plants used for handmade cigars are typically divided into four sections, from bottom to top: volado, seco, viso and ligero. As you move up the plant, the leaves get physically smaller and, in theory, stronger as they receive more sunlight than the lower leaves. For most plants, ligero is the top section of the plant and considered the strongest leaves of an individual plant. That said, some plants—I typically am told less than 10 percent of them—grow extra leaves up top, something referred to as medio tiempo.

While tobacco growers have known about medio tiempo for a while, the rest of the cigar world was largely in the dark until 2010. That year, Habanos S.A.—the company that sells Cuban cigars—introduced the Cohiba Behike BHK, which uses medio tiempo leaves, the first Cuban cigar to be explicitly marketed that way. Since then, some non-Cuban companies have marketed their own use of medio tiempo leaves, perhaps none more so than Warped.

Country of Origin: Nicaragua
Factory: Nicaragua American Cigars S.A.
Wrapper: Mexico (San Andrés)
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua
Length: 4 1/2 Inches
Ring Gauge: 46
Shape: Pressed
MSRP: $12.95 (Box of 20, $259)
Release Date: April 2025
Number of Cigars Released: Regular Production

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