Escobar Turns to Casa Carrillo for Series I Ultra Black

Escobar Cigars has announced that it has a new limited edition release that is produced by Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.’s Casa Carrillo factory.

The Escobar Series I Ultra Black is a 6 7/8 x 54 box-pressed toro extra. Blend-wise, it uses a Mexican San Andrés over five-year-old fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $25 and production is limited to 2,000 boxes of 10 cigars. Escobar says that the cigars are shipping to stores alongside the company’s new core line releases, three regular production blends made by AJ Fernandez in Nicaragua.

In 2021, Puros Privados—the parent company of Escobar—announced that Nasir Jones, the rapper Nas, had been added as an equity partner in the brand. The brand name is also a tie-in to another name that Nas has frequently referred to himself as, including in a 1997 track called Escobar ’97. David Gomes and Michael McNaughton are the company’s principal owners. The company says it has distribution in more than 20 countries and has begun to push expansion into more humidors in the U.S.