Apostate Cigars Adding Moroni’s Trumpet & The Endowment at PCA 2024

Next year, Apostate Cigars will be releasing two new additions to the company’s core line of offerings.

The first new cigar will be Moroni’s Trumpet, a 6 1/4 x 56 torpedo made up of a San Andrés oscuro wrapper covering a Dominican olor binder and a filler blend that includes Connecticut broadleaf and leaves grown in the Dominican Republic. The name of this line refers to “the spreading of the gospel throughout the world and the long-anticipated Second Coming of the Savior, which will be announced by trumpet-blowing angels,” according to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website.

In addition, Apostate Cigars will be releasing The Endowment, a 6 x 52 toro incorporating a Connecticut Desflorado wrapper, a Connecticut broadleaf binder, and filler tobaccos from the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Pennsylvania. According to Wikipedia, an endowment in the Mormon religion is “a two-part ordinance (ceremony) designed for participants to become kings, queens, priests, and priestesses in the afterlife.”

Apostate Cigars was founded in 2012 by Brandon Oveson and Kendrick Woolstenhulme, and the company gets its name from a term in Mormon culture that is a reference to the fact that choosing to smoke cigars is an open act of rebellion against the church’s teachings, as tobacco is forbidden in Mormon culture. Woolstenhulme and Oveson both grew up in Utah as active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who are also known as Mormons.

In an email, Oveson told halfwheel that both new cigars will be priced at $20 each, both will be packaged in 12-count bundles and—like the rest of the company’s lines—both are being made at Tabacalera Palma in the Dominican Republic. According to Oveson, both cigars are scheduled to begin shipping to retailers in the third quarter of next year.

The two cigars will debut at the 2024 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which takes place March 23-25 in Las Vegas.