At this year’s Texas Cigar Festival there will be a familiar cigar.

The La Flor Dominicana Texas Cigar Festival 2016 will be released once again at the annual event, which takes place this Saturday, April 22 in Houston.

It’s once again a 6 1/2 x 52 toro extra with a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, Sumatra binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. Two changes are being made: pricing is $8.50 instead of $8.70 last year and there will be 100 boxes of 10 cigars, instead of the 75 boxes released last year.

This is the fifth year that the Texas Cigar Festival has featured a release from La Flor Dominicana. Starting in 2013, the first three versions measured 6 1/2 x 50 before the cigar bumped up to a 52 ring gauge last year, while the blend has remained largely the same.

Texas Cigar Festival is hosted by Serious Cigars, which was purchased by Imperial Brands, plc—the parent of Altadis U.S.A. and JR Cigar—last year.

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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.