La Aurora Small Batch Lot No. 003 Debuting at TPE 2024

The third release in La Aurora’s relatively new Small Batch Series is a cigar that has been aged for nearly two decades.

At next week’s TPE 2024 trade show in Las Vegas, La Aurora will show off the Small Batch Lot No. 003, a 5.78 x 58 toro gordo. It uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over dual binders—Cameroon and Dominican—and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Peru. Each cigar has an MSRP of $13 and production is limited to 400 boxes of 10 cigars.

Most notably, La Aurora says these cigars have been aged for 19 years.

“Small Batch will continue to be a series that is very special to me. These cigars will only ever exist in small batches: each release features distinct tasting notes and are unable to be blended and rolled in large scale quantities,”said Manuel Inoa, La Aurora’s master blender, in a press release. “Lot No. 003 was aged for 19 years and features a flavor profile and complexity that are unlike any other smoke. With its oily, bright red wrapper, Lot No. 003 is flavorful and medium/full bodied cigar that offers a creamy smoke with notes of pepper and tobacco tones like leather and cedar that accompany until the end of the smoke.”

The La Aurora Small Batch Series contains different blends, each released in limited quantities. While the first Small Batch Series release was only sold in the Dominican Republic, La Aurora says that Lot No. 003 will only be sold in the U.S. As for Lot No. 004, it will be announced in late 2024.

TPE 2024 takes place Jan. 31-Feb. 2 in Las Vegas.