The Toscanello Raffinato Hazelnut is a small Italian cheroot with a big aromatic personality — a 3.375×38 half cheroot made entirely from Italian and Kentucky fire-cured tobacco at Manifatture Sigaro Toscano's facility in Cava dei Tirreni, near Naples. The Toscanello format is the ammezzato — the "friendship cigar," a style born in 1948 when surplus cigars were halved to reduce cost and share easily — and it's become one of the most iconic small formats in European cigar culture. No humidor required, no cut needed, and no ceremony — just open the pack and light it up.
The Raffinato Hazelnut was introduced in 2010 using a proprietary sweetening process developed by Manifatture Sigaro Toscano's blender — a closely guarded formulation that combines toasted hazelnut with the naturally smoky, fire-cured character of Kentucky tobacco. As the cigar burns, the sugar in the sweetened tip caramelizes, enhancing the hazelnut flavor and adding a warm toasted-wood quality that the fire-cured leaf amplifies rather than masks. The result is a cigar that smells like a pastry shop and smokes like a genuine tobacco experience — both things at once, neither one overwhelming the other.
The flavor profile runs through toasted hazelnut and amaretto from the first puff, with cocoa and warm aromatic wood notes developing as the cheroot burns down. Mild-medium in body, smooth and consistent throughout, and done in about 20 minutes — the perfect companion for a morning coffee, a short break, or any moment that calls for something quick, sweet, and satisfying. Five to a pack and priced to keep a few on hand at all times.
