Caldwell’s Anastasia Añejado 2016 Coming This Summer
In June 2016, Caldwell Cigar Co. released Anastasia, a limited edition cigar made as a follow-up of sorts to its Last Tsar. In 2018, the Anastasia returned, but this time with higher-priming tobaccos used and a blue secondary band instead of a green one like the original.
The plan was to release another Anastasia cigar—Añejado 2016—in between the 2016 and 2018 releases, but issues with packaging meant the cigar never got released. At that point, Caldwell decided to slate Añejado 2016 to be released prior to a fourth—and still unreleased—Anastasia. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic further delayed things, but it now seems that everything is ready for the cigars to be released this year.
Anastasia Añejado 2016 is the first of what will be at least two new Anastasia lines scheduled to be released this year. As the name implies, these cigars were rolled in 2016 though they aren’t the same as the original Anastasia. Instead, it’s a completely different blend—a Dominican habano mejorado wrapper over an Indonesian binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic—and it’s made at a different factory. In an email, Robert Caldwell, founder of Caldwell Cigar Co., told halfwheel that he’s not supposed to say which factory the cigars were rolled at, but that it wasn’t Tabacalera La Alianza S.A. like the original Anastasia.
It will be offered in a single 5 3/4 x 43 corona size that will have an MSRP of $25 per cigar. It will be limited to 6,000 boxes of 20 cigars.
Caldwell says the Anatasia Añejado will ship this summer before the company ships another new Anastasia line.
Charlie Minato
I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.
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