La Flor Dominicana TAA 50th Oro Tercera Edición Natural Heading to Stores

The second of La Flor Dominicana’s two newest releases for the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA) has begun shipping to and arriving at TAA member retailers.

After releasing the La Flor Dominicana TAA 50th Oro Tercera Edición Maduro in late January, it’s now the Natural version’s turn. Both versions use a Dominican binder and filler, including a Dominican criollo 99 tobacco that La Flor Dominicana only uses for its TAA releases. The Natural version gets a Nicaraguan sun grown wrapper, while the Maduro uses Connecticut broadleaf.

Like the Maduro version, the Natural is a 6 1/2 x 58 box-pressed chisel vitola, has an MSRP of $23, and is offered in 20-count boxes.

The cigars were originally announced in March 2020, but met with delays since that point, including moving it to the 2021 release while updating the name as it was originally called the TAA 52nd Oro Tercera Edición.

The Tobacconists Association of America is a fairly small group of some of the country’s top tobacconists, about 80 retailers, as well as 40 or so manufacturers. The association gathers annually to discuss issues facing the industry and retailers, as well as to have its annual trade show, a unique event that works on a group buying format in order to secure exclusive deals for these generally high-volume merchants. Cigar manufacturers often produce exclusive cigars for the organization and its Exclusive Series Program.