Alec Bradley’s Magic Toast Fifth Anniversary Heads to Stores
Forged Cigar Co. started out the week by shipping the Alec Bradley Post Embargo Blend Code B15, and it’s closing out the week by shipping the Alec Bradley Magic Toast Fifth Anniversary.
The cigar celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Magic Toast line, which was officially released in 2018, debuting at that year’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. However, the line first appeared in August 2016 as many companies hurried cigars into the market ahead of since-defeated FDA regulations that would have restricted new cigars from being released.
As for its name, it comes from the story that Alan Rubin, the founder and former owner of Alec Bradley, and Ralph Montero, a partner in Alec Bradley, went to visit a tobacco field in Honduras in the middle of the night, as the reports about the crops had been so good they didn’t want to wait until the morning. While there, they were so impressed with the tobacco that they felt compelled to toast to the company’s future. Rubin recalls the event as magical, hence the name Magic Toast. Some of the tobacco used in the blend of the regular production line is from that very field, while the rest comes from Nicaragua.
As for the blend for the Magic Toast Fifth Anniversary, it uses a maduro wrapper from Honduras’ Trojes region, a dual binder of Honduran Trojes criollo and Nicaraguan criollo grown in Estelí, while the filler is a mix of Jamastran corojo and criollo from Honduras and Jalapa-grown criollo from Nicaragua. It is available in just one vitola, a beefy 7 x 54 double robusto that is priced at $14.49 per cigar and $144.90 for a box of 10 cigars.
The cigars were produced by Fábrica de Tabacos Raíces Cubanas S. de R.L. in Danlí, Honduras, with the project limited to 2,000 boxes of 10 cigars, a total run of 20,000 cigars.
Patrick Lagreid
I strive to capture the essence of a cigar and the people behind them in my work – every cigar you light up is the culmination of the work of countless people and often represents generations of struggle and stories. For me, it’s about so much more than the cigar – it’s about the story behind it, the experience of enjoying the work of artisans and the way that a good cigar can bring people together. In addition to my work with halfwheel, I’m the public address announcer for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks during spring training, as well as for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and previously the Arizona Rattlers of the Indoor Football League. I also work in a number of roles for Major League Baseball, plus I'm a voice over artist. Prior to joining halfwheel, I covered the Phoenix and national cigar scene for Examiner.com, and was an editor for Cigar Snob magazine.
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