Rest assured, the book in the humidor is not for reading.

Rather, it’s probably the newest cigar from De Los Reyes Cigars’ Saga brand. The company has begun shipping the Short Tales Series, a planned 10-cigar line, with cigars coming in hollowed-out books that are used as display boxes.

Saga Short Tales Tales of High Priming box 1

As for the cigar, the first one is Saga Short Tales: Tales of High Priming. As the name would imply, it’s using high arming wrapper. Specifically, a dark wrapper from Jalapa, Nicaragua, Indonesian binder and fillers including Connecticut broadleaf and habano and negrito tobaccos grown by the Reyes family.

Saga Short Tales Tales of High Priming

The 4 x 58 cigar is priced at $8.49 per cigar and offered in boxes of 10.

Saga Short Tales Tales of High Priming box 2

While various companies have used book-style packaging, none have gone to this sort of detail where actual pages are included as part of the packaging. De Los Reyes plans on releasing a total of 10 different cigars as part of the Short Tales Series.

The cigars are now shipping to retailers.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.