Havana Phil’s Celebrates 5 Years & New Location With Exclusive Davidoff

Havana Phil’s Cigar Co. of Greensboro, N.C. has a new home and a new exclusive cigar.

The cigar is the Davidoff Havana Phil’s 5th Anniversary Exclusive, made for the store’s 5th anniversary. It’s part of Davidoff’s retailer anniversary exclusive program, which allows Davidoff appointed merchants celebrating a major anniversary to receive an exclusive cigar.

Davidoff sends each interested retailer five cigars in the same size, this year a 6 x 52 belicoso. Havana Phil’s selected a blend that Klass Pieter Kelner, Davidoff’s brand ambassador, described as notably different from the other four cigars.

It uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut rojiza wrapper, Dominican piloto binder and a mixture of Dominican fillers.

The cigars went on sale at the beginning of March, priced at $20 per cigar and limited to 300 boxes of 10. Out of the eight retailers that are in the program this year, Havana Phil’s was the only one to select this blend.

It comes as Havana Phil’s moves into its new location at 628 Battleground Ave. The building was built as the Irving Park Delicatessen in 1946 and was occupied as Cellar Anton’s for over four decades.

The store will feature both Davidoff and Rocky Patel lounges as well as a full liquor license. The grand opening for the new store is slated for April 1 with Rocky and Nish Patel on hand. The store soft opened on March 6.

Earlier this year, the store took delivery of the Rocky Patel CGALIII, named after the store’s proprietor, Phil Segal III. It’s a three-size line exclusive to the store using a Pennsylvania broadleaf maduro wrapper, Honduran binder and Nicaraguan and undisclosed ligero fillers.

Cigars International, Davidus Cigars, JR Cigar, Regency Cigar Emporium and Up In Smoke have announced their Davidoff Anniversary Exclusives.

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.