Karen Berger Adds Two New Vitolas to Core Blends

Karen Berger Cigars has added two new vitolas to its core lines, but not every line is getting both sizes.

The company is adding a box-pressed 6 x 60 Grande vitola to the K by Karen Berger Habano and Maduro lines, while a 6 x 52 pyramid is now available as part of the company’s K by Karen Berger Cameroon, Connecticut, Habano and Maduro lines.

Both new vitolas are packaged in 20-count boxes, regardless of blend. In terms of pricing, the Cameroon pyramid has an MSRP of $12.50, while the MSRP of the same vitola for the Connecticut, Habano, and Maduro lines is $11.50. Both versions of the box-pressed Grande each have an MSRP of $12.

All of the new additions to the company’s K by Karen Berger lines are being made at Estelí Cigars S.A. in Nicaragua.

In a text conversation, Bruce Busch, vice president of Karen Berger Cigars, told halfwheel that all six new cigars started shipping to retailers last week.

Brooks Whittington

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.