Davidoff will be adding a new limited edition size to its popular Winston Churchill line next month in the form of the The Raconteur, a 6 x 56 gran toro.
The Raconteur is a slightly modified version of the standard Winston Churchill blend. It uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper compared to the Ecuadorian Rojiza wrapper on the regular version. While they both use a Mexican San Andrés negro binder and a combination of Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers, The Raconteur features a 15-year-old Dominican San Vicente ligero alongside piloto visos, hybrid olor/piloto visos, piloto seco and Nicaraguan ligero from Estelí and seco from Condega.
There’s also a slight different look as a secondary band has been added with some of Sir Winston Churchill’s more iconic quotes.
“When talking to his great-grandson, Randolph Churchill, I discovered that Sir Winston had written as much as Shakespeare and Dickens put together,” said Charles Awad, svp of global marketing and innovation for Oettinger Davidoff AG, in a press release. “This Limited Edition honours one of the most dazzling raconteurs and prolific writers the world has ever known.”
Davidoff relaunched its Winston Churchill line a year ago with four standard cigars, each paying tribute to one of six faces of Sir Winston Churchill. In July, it unveiled two smaller sizes that paid tribute to the raining six faces, including Churchill as a raconteur.