Espinosa Ships Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special, Prix Fixe Menu and Maduro 6 x 60

A number of new cigars from celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s Knuckle Sandwich brand are on their way to stores, as Espinosa Premium Cigars, the company that distributes the brand, has announced that it has begun shipping the Chef Special 2023, the Prix Fixe Menu and the Knuckle Sandwich Maduro 6 x 60, all of which debuted at the 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show in July.

The Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special—which you’ll notice is a slight name change from Chef’s Special, which was used when the first installment was released—is a 6 1/2 x 52 box-pressed perfecto that uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper, while the binder and filler from Nicaragua. It’s limited to 1,500 boxes of 10 cigars, with pricing set at $15 per cigar and $150 per box.

Fittingly getting its name from a restaurant industry term, the Knuckle Sandwich Prix Fixe Sampler comes with nine cigars, three each in the Habano, Maduro and Connecticut blends, and all offered in a 5 x 58 salomon vitola, which is a new size for the brand. It’s a limited production item, with just 1,500 samplers produced, each priced at $162.

Rounding out the releases is a 6 x 60 box-pressed gordo for the Knuckle Sandwich Maduro line, one of the company’s regular production offerings. The line uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra maduro wrapper atop a Nicaraguan binder and filler. Pricing is set at $14 per cigar and $280 for a box of 20 cigars.

All of the cigars are produced at the San Lotano Factory in Ocotal, Nicaragua.

Patrick Lagreid

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