A new Casdagli cigar is being released to commemorate company founder Jeremy Casdagli’s 25 years in the cigar business.

The 25 Aniversario is a 7 1/2 x 52 double corona made with an Ecuadorian wrapper, a Dominican binder and a combination of filler tobaccos from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Peru and the U.S.A. The cigar is the newest addition to Casdagli’s Traditional Line Series, a line blended by Hendrik Kelner Jr. and made at the Kelner Boutique Factory in the Dominican Republic that debuted in 2013.

“My favorite cigar made for me by the Cuban Torcedor Carlos Valdez Mosquera was a Double Corona,” said Casdagli in a press release. “On leaving the Cuban production behind, I met up with Hendrik Kelner Jr to try to get close to his original Cuban blends. It seemed only natural that both the vitola and the Traditional Line blend was married together for this celebration.”

Each 25 Aniversario will have an MSRP of $36 and the cigars will be packaged in 10-count boxes, with only 4,000 cigars released per year. According to the press release, the debut production of the cigars is scheduled to be shipped to retailers in the U.S. in early August 2023 and the “rest of the world” in September. The Casdagli 25 Aniversario Double Corona will be shown off to retailers at the 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which takes place July 8-11 in Las Vegas.

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I have been smoking cigars for over eight years. A documentary wedding photographer by trade, I spent seven years as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I started the cigar blog SmokingStogie in 2008 after realizing that there was a need for a cigar blog with better photographs and more in-depth information about each release. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars. I am a co-founder of halfwheel and now serve as an editor for halfwheel.