While not an annual tradition, if Davidoff has a new Winston Churchill limited edition, it typically is released in January. That’s what will happen this week.
On Thursday, Jan. 9, retailers are expected to begin selling the new Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2025 The Artist, a 7 x 48 Churchill that uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over a Mexican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. Like the recently-released Year of the Snake, the cigar uses Dominican tobaccos from the Martín García area of the Dominican Republic.
The MSRP appears to be $49 per cigar and the cigar comes in boxes of 10.
Images of the packaging show that the company has leaned heavily into The Artist theme. The vista of each box features an image of a painting done by Churchill, “Cork Trees Near Mimizan.” Inside, the cigars are covered by a piece of wood that is designed to mimic a paint pallet.
Note: The following shows the various Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition vitolas. Some of these cigars may have been released after this post was originally published. The list was last updated on Jan. 5, 2025.
- Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2016 The Raconteur (6 x 56) — $27.90 (Boxes of 10, $279) — January 2016 — 6,000 Boxes of 10 Cigars (60,000 Total Cigars)
- Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2019 The Traveler Robusto (5 x 50) — $29.90 (Boxes of 10, $299) — January 2019 — 8,000 Boxes of 10 Cigars (80,000 Total Cigars)
- Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2019 The Traveler Corona (5 x 43) — $27.90 (Packs of 5, $279) — January 2019 — 4,500 Packs of 5 Cigars (22,500 Total Cigars)*
- Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2021 (6 x 56) — $32 (Boxes of 10, $320) — February 2021 — 4,500 Boxes of 10 Cigars (45,000 Total Cigars)
- Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2022 (5 7/8 x 61) — $34 (Box of 10, $340) — February 2022 — Undisclosed
- Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2025 The Artist (7 x 48) — TBA — January 2025*
*Not pictured.
When Davidoff revamped its Winston Churchill line in 2015, it introduced what it called six faces of Churchill, each recognizing a different facet of the man’s life: the aristocrat, the artist, the commander, the raconteur, the statesman and the traveler. This will be the fifth year to get a limited edition Winston Churchill release but only the third to explicitly use one of those themes.
In addition to the new limited edition, Davidoff is adding two new Winston Churchill humidor colorways. The humidor models themselves are Davidoff’s longstanding Primos and Ambassador sizes, both of which have been used for other Winston Churchill humidors over the years.
The smaller humidor, the Davidoff Winston Churchill The Artist Primos Humidor, is designed to hold 25-35 cigars. It has a dark gray color with Churchill’s silhouette in yellow. The Primos measures 10.98 inches x 9.41 x 4.25 and uses an oak exterior. The inside is made of anigre wood and contains one Davidoff Slim Regulator, a humidifier along with four dividers.
There’s also the larger Davidoff Winston Churchill The Artist Ambassador Humidor, which is blue. It measures 15.1 inches x 9.45 x 5.63, rated to hold 70-80 cigars. Its exterior is made of black tulipwood, while the interior uses anigre wood. The Ambassador humidor comes with one Davidoff Slim regulator and a removable tray.
Update (Jan. 6, 2025) — Added info and images from the press release. This story was originally published on Jan. 5.
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