CroMagnon Clovis Heads to Stores

The new version of the CroMagnon Black Irish is shipping.

RoMa Craft Tobac has begun shipping the CroMagnon Clovis, a 5 x 56 cigar that uses a barber pole wrapper design with Pennsylvania broadleaf as the primary visible wrapper and Ecuadorian candela tobacco as an accent. The internal blend is the same as the updated CroMagnon blend: a Sumatra hybrid binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

The cigar is the same size as the EMH, a 5 x 56 robusto gordo, but differs because of the candela tobacco. Previously, RoMa Craft sold a similar cigar, but it was called Black Irish and used a different blend.

Clovis’ MSRP is set at $13.15 per cigar, and 2024 production is limited to 500 boxes of 24 cigars. Like Black Irish, Clovis is expected to be a limited production cigar that is released annually.

Earlier this year, RoMa Craft Tobac began shipping the updated version of its CroMagnon blend. The company has changed the wrapper from Connecticut broadleaf to Pennsylvania broadleaf. RoMa Craft says that change was because it was unable to source enough usable Connecticut broadleaf wrapper. The new CroMagnon blend is not just a wrapper change; the filler includes Dominican tobacco, something that wasn’t present in the original CroMagnon blend.

This is the ninth size of the Pennsylvania broadleaf-wrapped CroMagnons to ship:

• CroMagnon Timeline (6 1/4 x 50) — $13.50 (Bundle of 10, $134.99)
• CroMagnon Pestera Muierilor (4 x 46) — $8.70 (Box of 30, $261)
• CroMagnon Knuckle Dragger (4 x 52) — $9.75 (Box of 24, $234)
• CroMagnon Mandible (4 1/2 x 60) — $10.25 (Box of 24, $246)
• CroMagnon Mode 5 (5 x 50) — $9.95 (Box of 24, $238.80)
• CroMagnon EMH (5 x 56) — $11.05 (Box of 24, $265.20)
• CroMagnon Anthropology (5 3/4 x 46) — $11.60 (Box of 24, $278.40)
• CroMagnon Cranium (6 x 54) — $12.40 (Box 24, $297.60)
• CroMagnon Clovis (5 x 56) — $13.15 (Box of 24, $315.60)

Clovis references the Clovis culture, which existed around 11,000 BCE in North America. At one point, it was believed that Clovis people were the first humans in the Americas, though that is now disputed.

One way to tell the two CroMagnon blends apart is the color of the text of the bands. The Connecticut broadleaf-wrapped cigars had a dark text, whereas the new Pennsylvania broadleaf versions have white text.