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Learn · Sizes & ShapesParejo Shapes
A parejo is the standard cigar shape... straight sides, a rounded head you cut, and an open foot you light.
The standard sizes
Dimensions read length in inches × ring gauge, which is 64ths of an inch. These are the common benchmarks in WSA's working vocabulary... individual makers drift from them freely:
- Petit Corona... 4.5 × 40-42. The short classic.
- Corona... 5.25 × 42-44. The old benchmark the other sizes are measured against.
- Corona Gorda... 5.5 × 46. Literally "fat corona."
- Robusto... 5 × 50. One of the two modern defaults.
- Toro... 6 × 50-52. The other modern default.
- Churchill... 7 × 47-48. Named for Winston Churchill, the size his habit made famous.
- Gordo / Sixty... 6 × 60. Broom-handle territory.
- Lonsdale... 6.5 × 42-44. Long, slim, old-school.
- Lancero... 7-7.5 × 38-40. The skinniest long format, heavily wrapper-forward.
- Panetela... 6-7 × 34-38. Slim and elegant, mostly out of fashion.
Names are not standardized
There is no governing body for vitola names. One maker's toro is 6×50, another's is 6×54, and a third calls the same cigar a corona gorda. Read the numbers, not the name... the dimensions are facts, the name is shorthand. Box-pressed cigars, pressed into a squared profile in the box, still count as parejos: the sides stay straight, they're just square.
On the site
WSA's reviews lean parejo. The Crux Guild Toro and the box-pressed My Father Flor de las Antillas Toro are toros. The Asylum 13 Corojo Robusto is a robusto. The two Perdomo Double Aged Epicures... the Maduro and the Sun Grown... run 6×56, parked between toro and gordo.