General Cigar Co.

The 2024 release of Alec Bradley’s Fine & Rare marked the 14th installment of the line created to show that 10 tobaccos could be successfully used in a blend. It’s also likely the first one developed by the Scandinavian Tobacco Group team since the acquisition of Alec Bradley in 2023.

The cigars that make up this limited release were made by 20 workers, each of whom have at least 15 years of experience. The blend includes tobacco from higher priming leaves that are taken from closer to the top of the tobacco plant to add more flavor and strength.

Filthy Ghooligan is a Halloween spin-off of Alec Bradley’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day cigar. The barber pole toro was released in limited quantities in mid-September.

The fourth release of General Cigar Co.’s Weller by Cohiba series features a blend that uses a binder aged in barrels that once held Weller Full Proof Bourbon. It’s offered in a lone 6 x 50 toro size that comes packaged in fancy tubes and boxes.

Last year, General Cigar Co. turned to the factory best known for producing JRE’s cigars for a new Punch line. This year, the company added a lancero to the line.

The Room101ification of Los Statos Deluxe entered its fourth chapter earlier this year with the Los Statos Deluxe Connecticut. It’s made at Joya de Nicaragua with a fairly unique filler blend for a Connecticut shade cigar.

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.

Not only did Scandinavian Tobacco Group acquire the existing Alec Bradley brands, but seemingly the blend book of Alan Rubin, founder of Alec Bradley. That book became the source for the company’s newest cigar.

The newest vitola in General Cigar Co.’s Riviera line also happens to be the first lancero in the non-Cuban Cohiba brand’s history. However, the blend remains the same as the previous three vitolas in the line, including the wrapper grown in Mexico’s San Andrés region.

Released for Father’s Day, this is General Cigar Co.’s follow-up to last year’s Dad Bod, which was packaged in a four-pack of cans made to look like beer. This year’s release is packaged in 10-count boxes that are designed to look like a two-cassette VHS release, complete with sleeve.

It takes 200 years to grow a Mizunara tree large enough to be cut for use. Then Rabbit Hole puts its most premium whisky in barrels made from the wood for 11 months, after they’ve already spent 15 years in American oak. Then it’s onto the cigarmaking process.