Long Live The Queen Maduro Heads to Stores

Early last year, Caldwell Cigar Co. released the Long Live The Queen, a Cameroon-wrapped cigar that was an extension of sorts to the company’s Long Live The King line. Now, there’s a new version of the Queen.

Today, Laudisi Distribution Group—the new owners of Caldwell Cigar Co.—are beginning to ship the Long Live The Queen Maduro. It’s a new regular production line that uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a binder from Indonesia and filler from the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Long Live The Queen Maduro is being made at the Ventura family’s new Tabacalera William Ventura factory in the Dominican Republic.

It is offered in five regular production sizes, all of which are round except for the Wild Card:

• Long Live The Queen Maduro Queen’s Crest (5 1/2 x 46) — $14.20 (Boxes of 10, $142)
• Long Live The Queen Maduro Queen’s Charge (6 x 60) — $18 (Boxes of 10, $180)
• Long Live The Queen Maduro Queen’s Coronet (5 x 50) — $14.80 (Boxes of 10, $148)
• Long Live The Queen Maduro Queen’s Chalice (6 x 54) — $16 (Boxes of 10, $160)
• Long Live The Queen Maduro Wild Card (6 x 52) — $20 (Boxes of 10, $200)

“Queen Maduro is the perfect complement to the Queen,” said Robert Caldwell, founder of Caldwell Cigar Co., in a press release. “It is a very interesting cigar that took quite a while to perfect. We started blending her about a year and a half ago. It took many iterations to finally land on this blend, and then we had to lay her down to rest. This is the release I have been most excited about in the last couple years.”