JM Tobacco Turning Limited Edition Española Year of the Dragon into Regular Production Española Corojo
In June, JM Tobacco released its limited edition Española Year of the Dragon to celebrate the current year on the Zodiac calendar. Citing that cigar’s success, the company is turning it into a regular production line called the Española Corojo.
The blend remains the same, with an Ecuadorian corojo habano wrapper, a Mexican San Andrés maduro binder and a filler of Dominican olor seco and ligero. While the Española Year of the Dragon was made at Tabacalera Turey S.A. in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the Española Corojo will be made by Blackbird Cigar Co. at its factory in the Dominican Republic.
It will be offered in four sizes:
- Española Corojo Robusto (5 x 50)
- Española Corojo Toro (6 x 50)
- Española Corojo Churchill (6 3/4 x 50)
- Española Corojo Belicoso (6 x 52)
All four sizes will come in 20-count boxes, with pricing still to be finalized. For reference, the Española Year of the Dragon, a 6 x 52 toro, was priced at $13 per cigar.
This becomes the third regular production line for the Española brand, joining the Española Connecticut and Española Maduro, which debuted in 1996.
The Española Corojo will make its debut at the 2025 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which happens April 11-14 in New Orleans, La. The company is scheduled to begin shipping the new line to stores on May 1, 2025.
Correction (Sept. 10, 2024) — Anto Mahroukian informed halfwheel that the original details about the blend was incorrect, as the company originally announced that it used a Connecticut broadleaf binder, and a filler that uses tobaccos grown in the Dominican Republic and Mexico’s San Andrés Valley. That has been corrected to using a Mexican San Andrés maduro binder and a filler of Dominican olor seco and ligero.
Image courtesy of JM Tobacco.
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