CRAFT 2022 Heading to Stores Next Week
RoMa Craft Tobac’s annual CRAFT cigar will begin shipping to stores next week.
The CRAFT 2022 is a 5 x 50 robusto that appears to use at least three different types of tobacco for its unique wrapper designs. Skip Martin, co-founder of RoMa Craft Tobac, declined to disclose the exact blend details of the cigar, though did acknowledge it uses Nicaraguan tobaccos from at least two regions. Martin has posted pictures of at least two different wrapper designs but told halfwheel there are 10 different designs.
For this year’s release, RoMa Craft Tobac made 2,500 boxes of 10 cigars and there will be roughly 200 bundles of 10 cigars sold as well. The MSRP is set at $12 per cigar. Like last year, the cigar will be sold at RoMa Craft Tobac retailers nationwide.
“Since 2013, CRAFT has been a project we use to tell a story about what is happening in our factory and our company,” said Martin. “This year, we are focused on the 5 x 50 format and some new tobaccos we have been using from Jamastran and Condega. The various designs in the box are fun, but this is a very serious piece of work.”
This is the sixth CRAFT release to date, the first one debuted in 2013 and there’s been a new edition each year since 2018. While RoMa Craft Tobac has not said the designs will change each year, the six CRAFT releases have been unique in both wrapper design and vitola each year.
- CRAFT 2013 La Campaña de Panamá Soberana (5 x 46/60) — November 2013 — 1,000 Boxes of 10 Cigars (10,000 Total Cigars)
- CRAFT 2018 (5 x 46/60) — March 2018 — 2,000 Boxes of 10 Cigars (20,000 Total Cigars)
- CRAFT 2019 (6 1/2 x 44) — May 2019 — 250 Boxes of 12 Cigars (3,000 Total Cigars)
- CRAFT 2020 (5 3/4 x 46) — June 2020 — 1,500 Boxes of 10 Cigars (15,000 Total Cigars)
- CRAFT 2021 (5 5/8 x 60) — July 2021 — 2,000 Boxes of 10 Cigars (20,000 Total Cigars)
Like other RoMa Craft Tobac cigars, CRAFT 2022 is made at Fábrica de Tabacos NicaSueño S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua.
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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