Noel Rojas’s KSG Heads to Retailers
Noel Rojas’s latest project, KSG, is now on its way to retailers.
Rojas announced the project in late January just ahead of the Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 2020 trade show where he showed it off to the industry. While he had hoped to have it available on March 1, delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the cigar’s release back several weeks.
The cigar, whose name stands for King of the Small Gauge, is a 7 1/2 x 38 lancero that utilizes tobaccos from the Somoto region of Nicaragua, a developing about 55 miles northwest of Estelí near the Honduran border. Somoto tobacco was selected for the binder and part of the filler, with additional Nicaraguan tobacco blended in as well. That combination gets finished with a five-year-old Ecuadorian maduro wrapper leaf. The cigar is being made at the Flor de San Luis factory in Esteli, Nicaragua.
The KSG is priced at $12 per cigar, before taxes, and offered in 14-count boxes. Production was capped at 5,000 cigars in total, making for 357 boxes and a few extra single cigars. The first shipments are expected to arrive at retailers this week.
Images courtesy of Noel Rojas.
Patrick Lagreid
I strive to capture the essence of a cigar and the people behind them in my work – every cigar you light up is the culmination of the work of countless people and often represents generations of struggle and stories. For me, it’s about so much more than the cigar – it’s about the story behind it, the experience of enjoying the work of artisans and the way that a good cigar can bring people together. In addition to my work with halfwheel, I’m the public address announcer for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks during spring training, as well as for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and previously the Arizona Rattlers of the Indoor Football League. I also work in a number of roles for Major League Baseball, plus I'm a voice over artist. Prior to joining halfwheel, I covered the Phoenix and national cigar scene for Examiner.com, and was an editor for Cigar Snob magazine.
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