July 25, 2018 Brian Burt IPCPR 2018

IPCPR 2018: Warped

This is Warped’s fifth show since returning to the cigar world in 2014 and with this show comes the fifth new booth space.

For the first time since 2015, Warped is back in their own booth as opposed to sharing it with Casa Fernández. They had a towering logo above everything, a couple of nice display cases and a TV that had their cigar information playing on a looped slideshow.

Warped Serie Grande Reserva 1988

The delayed Serie Grande Reserva 1988 is now ready for release. After being shown off last trade show, delays pushed the cigar further down the pipe, until it only made sense to release it after this year’s show.

  • Wrapper: Nicaragua
  • Binder: Nicaragua
  • Filler: Nicaragua

 

  • Warped Serie Gran Reserva 1988 (5 1/4 x 50) — $9 (Boxes of 25, $225)

Production: Regular Production

Launch Date: End of August 2018

La Relatos: The First

Spanish for The Stories, La Relatos: The First is a new petit lancero inspired by the stories that you sit down and tell while smoking cigars. Founder Kyle Gellis pointed out that the images on the box of two men smoking are him and his father.

  • Wrapper: Ecuador (Habano)
  • Binder: Nicaragua
  • Filler: Nicaragua (Corojo 99 & Criollo 98)
  • La Relatos The First (6 x 38) — $9.30 (Pack of 5, $46.50)

Production: Regular Production

Launch Date: September 2018

Moon Garden

Last new release is the Moon Garden, 2018’s limited edition cigar from Warped. Gellis mentioned this was a tweaked Flor del Valle blend.

  • Wrapper: Nicaragua (Corojo 99)
  • Binder: Nicaragua
  • Filler: Nicaragua (Corojo 99 & Criollo 98)
  • Moon Garden (7 x 40) — $15 (boxes of 10, $150)

Production: 650 Boxes of 10 Cigars (6,500 Total Cigars)

Launch Date: September 2018

Sarto

Lastly not a new release, but more of a teaser – on the back of the booth was an image of Gellis’ dog Sarto, which is the inspiration for a cigar coming next year. He said it would either be at the show in 2019 or coming out in December in celebration of Sarto’s birthday.

Davidoff is the official sponsor of halfwheel's coverage of the 2018 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show.
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Brian Burt

I have been smoking cigars since 2005 and reviewing them as a hobby since 2010. Initially, I started out small with a 50-count humidor and only smoking one or two cigars a month. Not knowing anybody else that smoked cigars, it was only an occasional hobby that I took part in. In March of 2010, I joined Nublive and Cigar Asylum, connecting me with many people who also shared an interest in cigars. Reading what they had to say about brands I had never heard of, I quickly immersed myself in the boutique brands of the industry and it was then that cigars transformed from a hobby into a passion.

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