Fans of the E.P. Carrillo Short Run won’t have to wait much longer to try the latest from Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.

The company has informed retailers that the E.P. Carrillo Short Run 2015  will begin shipping in mid-March. Now in its sixth release, the basic details have become tradition: it’s a late winter/spring release, limited in production, made in three sizes and sold in boxes of 24.

All of those hold true for the 2015 edition.

It uses a Nicaraguan criollo 98 wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. The wrapper is paramount to the release. Perez-Carrillo Jr. wanted to create a cigar sometime ago using a wrapper similar to this particular leaf, but he couldn’t find it until recently. The company is describing this cigar as “sharing a memory.”

E P Carrillo Short Run 2015

The three sizes for the release are Napoleon (5 x 50, $6.75), Vencedores (6 x 52, $7.75) and Imperios (6 x 60, $8.75). All three sizes come in boxes of 24 and are limited to 1,500 boxes.

This year’s release sees a slight packaging tweak, both the primary and secondary bands are done in the style of the New Wave Reserva and Cabinet that debuted last year.

The cigars should debut at Federal Cigar’s 94th anniversary celebration next Friday and ship nationally shortly thereafter.

E.P. Carrillo cigars are made at the company’s Tabacalera La Alianza S.A. in the Dominican Republic.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.