Davidoff Grand Cru Diademas Finas Debuting Next Month

Davidoff has announced that it will combine two of its most iconic cigars for a singular, limited edition release: Grand Cru + Diademas Finas.

Next month, the company will release the Davidoff Grand Cru Diademas Finas Limited Edition, a 6 3/4 x 50 diadema size—the same one used for the Davidoff Diademas Finas—that uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over a Dominican binder and Dominican fillers. That includes seco from San Vicente that was aged in spent casks that previously held premier grand cru classé red wine from Bordeaux, France. The tobacco was aged in these casks for six months, flipped every two weeks. Davidoff did not provide detailed blend info about where the rest of the Dominican tobacco comes from but said—presumably for the first time—that it grows tobacco in 15 regions in the Dominican Republic.

The MSRP is set at $57 per cigar. There are expected to be roughly 4,000 boxes for sale in the U.S. though official production numbers have not been announced. The cigars will go on sale on July 4, 2024.

“The possibilities offered by different terroirs in winemaking and the blending of at least three different main grape varieties in French wine making inspired Zino Davidoff in 1946 to create a cigar line that would be blended in the same way as a fine red wine. The line we know today as Grand Cru has its origins in this wine-cigar analogy,” said Edward Simon, cmo at Oettinger Davidoff, in a press release. “Our new Grand Cru Diademas Finas with a wine cask aged filler tobacco is based on this idea, as the cigar perfectly reflects the main aromas of a well-aged red wine.”

This is the fourth and final release of Davidoff’s History Re-Rolled Series, which began last year. The other three releases in the series were all cigars that Davidoff had previously discontinued but brought back in 2023 for limited releases.

The full series, as pictured above, is as follows:

• Davidoff Signature No. 1 Limited Edition (previously known as the Davidoff Classic No. 1) — January 2023
• Davidoff Grand Cru Diademas Finas Limited Edition Collection — July 2024
• Davidoff Aniversario No. 1 Limited Edition Collection — October 2023
• Davidoff Millennium Blend Lancero — April 2023