Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special 2024 Gets Connecticut Broadleaf Wrapper

One of the annual limited edition cigars from Knuckle Sandwich Cigars—the collaborative project between Espinosa Premium Cigars and Guy Fieri, the celebrity chef—will get a new wrapper option for its 2024 release.

The original Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special used a habano wrapper, last year’s Chef Special used a Sumatra wrapper. For 2024, the Chef Special will use a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper.

Another change will be the size. The Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special 2024 is a 6 x 54 toro oval shape, the first two Chef Special releases were box-pressed figurados. The binder and filler tobaccos are Nicaraguan and the cigar is made at AJ Fernandez’s San Lotano Factory in Ocotal, Nicaragua.

The Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special 2024 has an MSRP of $16 per cigar and production is limited to 2,000 boxes of 10 cigars.

“Every year we offer a new Chef Special, this year we took a break from the box-pressed figurado and went with the oval soft press, which has become not only a favorite of mine, but with many Knuckle Sandwich smokers,” said Hector Alfonso, director of operations at Espinosa Premium Cigars, in a press release. “This cigar will not disappoint!”

Espinosa Premium Cigars—which distributes Knuckle Sandwich—will show off the Chef Special 2024 to retailers at this week’s 2024 PCA Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas. It says the cigars will ship to stores in late April.