Every HVC cigar is a tribute to Havana, Cuba—the company is named after Havana City—but the brand’s special cigar for Havana’s 500th birthday now shipping.

The HVC 500 Years Anniversary is a 5 7/8 x 52 parejo vitola, known in Cuba as tesoros, which uses all Nicaraguan tobacco: a corojo 99 wrapper from Jalapa over a binder from Jalapa and criollo 98 and corojo 99 fillers from Jalapa and Estelí.

Pricing is set at $10.60 per cigar and production is limited to 1,333 boxes of 15 cigars.

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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.