Aladino Cameroon Reserva Begins Shipping Next Week

Next week, nearly a half dozen stores around the country will receive the Aladino Cameroon Reserva, a new cigar made with Cameroon-seed tobacco grown in Honduras.

JRE Tobacco Co. will begin shipping the Aladino Cameroon Reserva to the eight retailers that have branded Aladino lounges. It says that other stores will begin receiving the cigars in the first half of July.

As for the cigar, it’s offered in a single 6 x 52 toro size and is believed to be the first cigar to ever be made entirely of Cameroon-seed tobacco grown in Honduras.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $22 and comes in boxes of 12. JRE says that each of the 125 stores that will get the cigar will receive between 2-10 boxes. The Aladino Cameroon Reserva will also be available in Hong Kong, Malaysia and the United Kingdom.

The eight Aladino Lounges that will be the first to receive the cigar are:

• Final Third (Ingalls, Ind.)
• Lafontaine’s Tobacco & Wine Shop (Huntington, W.Va.)
• Michael’s Tobacco (Euless, Texas)
• Nelson Loguasto Cigar Co. (Greensburg, Pa.)
• The Cigar Vault East (Austin, Texas)
• Tobacco Exchange — Edmond (Edmond, Okla.)
• Tobacco Exchange — Moore (Moore, Okla.)
• Tobacco Exchange — Oklahoma City (Okla.)

Update — JRE Tobacco Co. has clarified that there are eight, not six (or seven), Aladino lounges.

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.