Aladino Cameroon Reserva Coming This Spring

For the first time ever, there will be a cigar for sale that is made entirely of Cameroon-seed tobacco grown in Honduras.

That cigar is the upcoming Aladino Cameroon Reserva, which will debut in a 6 x 52 size. JRE Tobacco Co. says that the cigar is limited in production and will be allocated, with the first shipments heading to Aladino-branded lounges in May before shipping to other stores in June.

Each cigar will have an MSRP of $22 and the cigars come in boxes of 12. While the branding for this release is still Aladino, the color scheme and other packaging elements are a noted departure for the brand.

After nearly a handful of years of tinkering, JRE Tobacco Co. launched the Aladino Cameroon line in 2020. That line was a successor of sorts to the Camacho Select, a blend that used a Cameroon wrapper—from Cameroon—over the Eiroa’s Honduran tobacco. That cigar was introduced in 2006, shortly before the Eiroa family sold Camacho.

The Aladino Cameroon, a regular production line, uses the Cameroon-seed wrapper grown in Honduras, but the internal tobacco is not Cameroon, instead, it’s the seed that the Eiroa family is most known for: corojo.

JRE Tobacco Co. will show off the new Aladino Cameroon Reserva to retailers during this week’s 2024 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which takes place March 23-25 in Las Vegas.

Update — The original version of this story listed the MSRP as $12 per cigar. That was a typo on our end. The press release states that the price is $22 per cigar.