Weekly News (Oct. 28 2024)
The news, reviews and more from the past week.
Matilde Special Edition Shipping Tomorrow
The new release marks first time that Matilde has utilized Peruvian tobacco in one of the company’s blends. Each cigar has an MSRP of $13.25 and they are being rolled at the TABACALERA LA iSLA factory located in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Discontinues Mi Querida Muy Gordo Grande, Adding 6 x 64 Vitola Next Year
The 6 x 54 Muy Gordo Grande vitola has not been rolled since early this year. The company says only 56 boxes of the size remains in its inventory.
Drunk Chicken’s Homicidal Hen Gets New Vitola for 2024
First released in 2020, this annual limited edition is the strongest cigar that Drunk Chicken Cigars has released thus far. This year’s release is offered in a different vitola than previous years’ options.
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Ships #GFY Lancero Collection
The sampler box contains 10 different 7 x 38 lancero violas, nine of which have never been released. One of those lanceros is made with a candela wrapper, which marks the first time that the company has sold a candela-wrapped cigar.
Quesada Adding Casa Magna Maduro Line in November
The new line will consist of five different vitolas: three regular production sizes and two limited edition vitolas. The two limited sizes are a box-pressed toro made exclusively for retail members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA) and a lancero.
Micallef Releasing Black Soft Box-Pressed Toro as Smoke Inn Exclusive
This is the first box-pressed vitola in the company’s Black line. The blend remains the same as the previous two sizes that were introduced last year: a Mexican San Andrés wrapper covering an Ecuadorian habano binder and a filler blend of Nicaraguan tobaccos.
Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Nicaragua Midnight Twist Love Story
A Reserva Real Nicaragua is getting the barberpole treatment.
Montecristo L’Esprit La Nuit Humidor Going on Sale in Switzerland Next Week
The Montecristo L’Esprit humidors were created to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the French humidor and accessories maker S.T. Dupont. Each of the designs—which include Le Crépuscule, La Nuit and L’Aurore—are named after three different stages of night though the cigars inside are the same.
Les Fines Lames Adds Obsidian & Raw Aluminum Ashtrays
The first is made of raw aluminum, while the second is made of obsidian. Both finishes are being made available in the company’s single-cigar MONAD and double-cigar DYAD ashtrays.
El Titan de Bronze Redemption Toro
Collaboration releases between General Cigar Co. and the El Titan de Bronze factory in Miami are nothing new, but this line is owned by the factory. The new blend is made with an Ecuadorian habano wrapper covering filler tobaccos from Nicaragua: the binder is grown in the Estelí region while the filler includes tobacco from the Estelí and Jalapa regions.
