CroMagnon PA Begins Shipping Tomorrow

Tomorrow, CroMagnon will return to stores with a new look and a new blend.

Last year, RoMa Craft Tobac announced that it was updating CroMagnon—the company’s first blend—due to issues it had sourcing the Connecticut broadleaf wrapper that the blend used. As such, the company has reworked the CroMagnon line, which now uses a Pennsylvania broadleaf wrapper. The rest of the updated blend includes a Sumatra hybrid binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. For context, the original blend had a different binder and no Dominican tobaccos.

Tomorrow, RoMa Craft will begin shipping the seven core sizes of CroMagnon. These are the same core sizes that it used for the original CroMagnon blend:

• 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)

Earlier this month, RoMa Craft Tobac began shipping the limited edition CroMagnon Timeline to select stores. There will be a few more limited sizes released at a later date.

Consumers will be able to tell which blend they are smoking based on the text of the band. Cigars with dark gray text are the Connecticut broadleaf version; the bands with white text are the updated Pennsylvania version.

CroMagnon debuted in 2010, first as an unbanded cigar. Over time, the line got more sizes and bands, but recently it has not been a big part of RoMa Craft’s focus. In mid-2022, the Fábrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño S.A. factory stopped rolling CroMagnon due to wrapper supply issues. In early 2023, RoMa Craft Tobac removed CroMagnon from its price list.

Previously, Skip Martin—co-founder of RoMa Craft Tobac—told halfwheel that he is open to making the Connecticut broadleaf version again, even going so far as to say he’d be open to having it made at another factory.