Domain Cigars is marking the six-month anniversary of its debut with not just the release of a new line, but also the prototype cigar that led to it.
The new line is called Entropy, and it uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and filler. The blend, which leans heavily on ligero, borrows significantly from Negentropy, one of the company’s two debut lines, with a press release saying that 90 percent of the blend is derived from that line.
Entropy, which is a regular production line, is debuting in four sizes:
- Entropy Toro (6 x 50) —$12.49 (Box of 20, $249.80)
- Entropy Robusto Extra (5 x 52) — $12.49 (Box of 20, $249.80)
- Entropy Robusto Gordo (5 x 56) — $12.99 (Box of 20, $259.80)
- Entropy Belicoso Shaggy — His Excellency (5 x 54) — $14.99 (Box of 20, $299.80)
The company is currently accepting orders for Entropy and expects that it will be on store shelves by the end of November.
As part of the launch of Entropy, Domain is also releasing the remaining No7B prototypes so that consumers can experience the blend that was the predecessor to the Entropy line. The cigar was sent out to a limited number of retailers as part of an introduction to the line, with a note that it may go on to become a regular production addition to the company’s portfolio. But since those No7B samples were sent out, the blend has been tweaked a bit. Daniel Lance, co-founder of Domain Cigars, told halfwheel that Entropy uses a different crop of broadleaf for the wrapper, while there was one modification to the viso in the filler.
No7B comes wearing white bands that say “Limited Factory Sample” on them, with simply 7B being handwritten on the backs of most of the bands, though there appear to also be references to the cigar as the N7B, something attributed to the use of shorthand in the factory. Daniel Lance, co-founder of Domain Cigars, didn’t have a firm number as to just how many No7Bs are being released but said that the prototype batch contained about 2,000 total cigars split across three sizes:
- Domain No7B Robusto Extra (5 x 52)
- Domain No7B Toro (6 x 50)
- Domain No7B 6 x 60
The cigars all come in 20-count bundles but do not have an official MSRP, as Domain is allowing their retailers to price and sell them as they see fit. Just 18 retailers across the country will be carrying the remaining N07B prototypes.
Domain Cigars was launched by Lance, who came from the cigar retail world before launching Lujo Concepts, and Esteban Disla, a cigar-making veteran who most recently spent just over 10 years at the Fábrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño S.A., the Estelí, Nicaragua factory that is home to RoMa Craft Tobac. Prior to that, he worked at Latin Cigars S.A., the factory now known as STG Estelí, creating blends for CAO, Toraño, Alec Bradley, and some 30 other companies.
The company’s first two lines, Neutron and Negentropy, debuted in April 2024. They are produced at Tabacalera Familia Disla in Estelí, Nicaragua, which has also ventured into producing cigars for private-label clients.
No7B photo courtesy of La Cultura Cigar & Social; Entropy cigar photo courtesy of Domain Cigars.