STUDIO TOBAC is shipping an additional shipment of 2,000 boxes of the limited Cain F Lancero to retailers. The shipment is actually from the initial batch of cigars that shipped in January after months of delays because of the tubos. Ultimately, the January shipment was only a partial shipment as Oliva was still waiting on additional tubos.

The Cain F Lancero was shown off in late 2010, the first STUDIO TOBAC creation, and first released as part of the 2011 STUDIO TOBAC World Tour Sampler. While it was shown at IPCPR 2011, the cigars were delayed until 2012—although it was also included in the STUDIO TOBAC Lancero Exclusive Collection in late 2011, the first time it was offered for sale.

While the cigar remains the same, the price will increase to $6.30 up from $6.00 from the first batch. This comes from Oliva’s across the board price increase in early 2012. The price of the first batch was unaffected because orders were taken at IPCPR in July 2011.

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Brooks Whittington

I have been smoking cigars for over eight years. A documentary wedding photographer by trade, I spent seven years as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I started the cigar blog SmokingStogie in 2008 after realizing that there was a need for a cigar blog with better photographs and more in-depth information about each release. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars. I am a co-founder of halfwheel and now serve as an editor for halfwheel.