Bolívar Regentes, a 2021 Edición Limitada, Debuting Next February

For most years during the last two decades, Habanos S.A. has announced three new Edición Limitada releases each year. These cigars are each a new size for a particular brand, not necessarily a new Cuban cigar size, but one that hasn’t been sold as part of that particular brand before. As the name would imply, the cigars are offered in limited quantities, though rarely ever disclosed production numbers.

For 2021, those three cigars were the Cohiba 55 Anniversario (5 9/10 x 57), Hoyo de Monterrey Monterreyes No.4 (5 7/10 x 55) and the Bolívar Regentes (5 1/8 x 52). The Cohiba launched in 2022, the Hoyo de Monterrey went on sale earlier this year, and—logically—the Bolívar will debut next year.

Hunters & Frankau, the U.K.’s distributor of Cuban cigars, has announced that it will hold a global launch party for the Bolívar Regentes on Feb. 7, 2024 at the Boisdale Canary Wharf in London. Tickets for the dinner are £275 per person, which includes a three-course dinner and three Regentes cigars. Typically, Habanos S.A. will select a distributor to host a launch event. That distributor will then be the first to sell the cigars to retail stores, with other distributors and markets getting the cigars at various later dates.

The 5 1/8 (130mm) x 52 parejo size is known as Discretos within the Cuban naming system. The only other Cuban cigar to be made in this vitola is the Partagás Maduro No.1.

In addition to being a unique size, Edición Limitada cigars use tobacco from the Vuelta Abajo region of Pinar del Rió, which is then aged for a minimum of two years. They carry a secondary band that reads “Edición Limitada” and then the year they were announced.

The gap between the year when Edición Limitada cigars are announced and when they go on sale has widened substantially over the last five years. In 2017 and 2018, Habanos S.A. was able to deliver the first shipments of most of the cigars in either the year they were announced or in the first few months of the following year. As with most new Cuban cigar announcements these days, it is oftentimes multiple years between when these cigars were announced and when they will go on sale.

There were no Edición Limitada cigars as part of the 2022 class. Habanos S.A. informed some distributors that it was planning 2022 Edicíon Limitadas for H. Upmann, Ramón Allones and Trinidad. Those cigars were reclassified and are now part of the 2023 class of Edición Limitada cigars:

• H. Upmann Magnum Finite — 5 1/8 (130mm) x 53 (Singulares)
• Ramón Allones Absolutos — 6 3/8 (162mm) x 47 (Cazadores Especiales)
• Trinidad Cablidos —  6 1/8 (156mm) x 49 (Nuevos)

There is no word on when these cigars might go on sale.

Update (Jan. 9, 2024) — Added pricing info for the event.