This was Marrero Cigar Co.’s first IPCPR, and the Costa Rican company decided to debut two new cigars for the show. Both cigars are line extensions for existing brands.Flor de Nino Box-Pressed Robusto

The first new line extension is the Flor de Nino Box-Pressed Robusto, a 5 x 54 robusto that incorporates a habano oscuro wrapper covering a binder from Ecuador and filler tobaccos from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Peru. The brand is named after owner Joel Vazquez Marrero’s grandfather Saturnino “Nino” Marrero and will be shipping to retailers on August 15.

  • Wrapper: Habano Oscuro
  • Binder: Ecuador
  • Filler: Dominican Republic, Nicaragua & Peru
  • Flor de Nino Box-Pressed Robusto (5 x 54) — $8.20 (Boxes of 20, $164)

Launch Date: August 15, 2017Tico Torpedo

The second new cigar is the Tico Torpedo, a 6 x 52 torpedo vitola in the company’s  Tico brand, the name of which is slang for typical Costa Rican. As with the other three sizes in the line, the torpedo is covered in an Ecuadorian habano rosado wrapper along with a binder from Ecuador and undisclosed filler tobaccos.

  • Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano Rosado
  • Binder: Ecuador
  • Filler: Undisclosed
  • Tico Torpedo (6 x 52) — $7.90 (Boxes of 20, $158)

Launch Date: August 15, 2017

Davidoff is the official sponsor of halfwheel's coverage of the 2017 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show.
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I have worn many hats in my life up to this point: I started out as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, then transitioned to photographing weddings—both internationally and in the U.S.—for more than a decade. After realizing that there was a need for a cigar website containing better photographs and more in-depth information about each release, I founded my first cigar blog, SmokingStogie, in 2008. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars, and it was one of the predecessors to halfwheel, which I co-founded.