General Cigar Co.

The fourth release of General Cigar Co.’s Weller by Cohiba series features a blend that uses a binder aged in barrels that once held Weller Full Proof Bourbon. It’s offered in a lone 6 x 50 toro size that comes packaged in fancy tubes and boxes.

Last year, General Cigar Co. turned to the factory best known for producing JRE’s cigars for a new Punch line. This year, the company added a lancero to the line.

The Room101ification of Los Statos Deluxe entered its fourth chapter earlier this year with the Los Statos Deluxe Connecticut. It’s made at Joya de Nicaragua with a fairly unique filler blend for a Connecticut shade cigar.

Collaboration releases between General Cigar Co. and the El Titan de Bronze factory in Miami are nothing new, but this line is owned by the factory. The new blend is made with an Ecuadorian habano wrapper covering filler tobaccos from Nicaragua: the binder is grown in the Estelí region while the filler includes tobacco from the Estelí and Jalapa regions.

Not only did Scandinavian Tobacco Group acquire the existing Alec Bradley brands, but seemingly the blend book of Alan Rubin, founder of Alec Bradley. That book became the source for the company’s newest cigar.

The newest vitola in General Cigar Co.’s Riviera line also happens to be the first lancero in the non-Cuban Cohiba brand’s history. However, the blend remains the same as the previous three vitolas in the line, including the wrapper grown in Mexico’s San Andrés region.

Released for Father’s Day, this is General Cigar Co.’s follow-up to last year’s Dad Bod, which was packaged in a four-pack of cans made to look like beer. This year’s release is packaged in 10-count boxes that are designed to look like a two-cassette VHS release, complete with sleeve.

It takes 200 years to grow a Mizunara tree large enough to be cut for use. Then Rabbit Hole puts its most premium whisky in barrels made from the wood for 11 months, after they’ve already spent 15 years in American oak. Then it’s onto the cigarmaking process.

The third incarnation in the Hit & Run brand is made with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper covering an Ecuadorian Sumatra binder and filler tobaccos grown in Nicaragua—including corojo 98 and an undisclosed varietal—and in Pennsylvania. Like the original blend that was released in 2017, the newest version of the brand is being produced by the Ventura family in the Dominican Republic.

It’s the fourth release in the only American-made Cohiba line.

No, it’s not a Spanish market exclusive. Rather, the cigar features filler tobacco grown in Riolobos, Spain.