Cohiba Riviera Lancero Arrives at Stores

The first non-Cuban Cohiba lancero is now available for sale.

Last week, General Cigar Co.—which sells the red dot Cohiba brand in the U.S.—began shipping the new Cohiba Riviera Lancero, a 7 x 38 box-pressed lancero. Like the rest of the Riviera line—which was introduced a year ago—it uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a Connecticut-seed binder grown in Honduras and fillers from the Jamastran Valley in La Entrada in Honduras as well as tobaccos from Condega and Estelí, Nicaragua. The cigars are made at STG Estelí in Nicaragua.

The MSRP for the Cohiba Riviera Lancero is set at $14.99 per cigar and it is offered in boxes of 15.

“The Lancero is a sophisticated vitola, and it was with great intention that we chose to debut this format under the Riviera line,” said Sean Williams, Cohiba’s brand ambassador, in a press release when the cigar was announced in March. “Cohiba Riviera embodies the brand’s style and substance in a way that is classically modern, and our resurgence of this classic size feels new and contemporary in its box-pressed format, especially under the Riviera umbrella.”

Cohiba Riviera is the first and only non-Cuban Cohiba to be box-pressed.