The sixth installment in J. London’s Telephone Booth Series is on its way to stores, as the company is shipping the Lavender Telephone Booth today.

The cigar is a 5 x 50 robusto that uses a Dominican broadleaf maduro wrapper, and while the binder and filler are of undisclosed origin, the former is an olor varietal, while the filler uses criollo 98 ligero and olor viso. At the 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show, Jonathan Fiant, owner of J. London Cigars, told halfwheel that the wrapper was grown on virgin soil, which had him excited for the flavor profile that this robusto will offer.

A total of 4,000 cigars have been produced, split into 800 packs of five cigars. As with the rest of the Telephone Booth Series, pricing is set at $14.80 per cigar and $73 per pack.

The company does not disclose where the cigars are made, other than Fiant saying that it is at a facility owned by a family with four generations of experience growing and processing tobacco, while the cigars were blended by “a master with over 40 years of experience in the industry.”

The Lavender joins the Blue, Orange, Pink, Red and Neon Green releases that have come out since the line’s debut in late 2022.

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