 The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods including premium cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "[a] nice Connecticut wrapper" and "very silky, very fine.From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available", in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.In 2017, one of the largest producers of shade grown tobacco, O.J.