Padillla to Release For Whom the Bell Tolls in September
A new release from Ernesto Padilla is scheduled to arrive on store shelves in September, as he has announced For Whom the Bell Tolls.
The cigar is being released in a single vitola for now, a 5 5/8 x 46 box-pressed corona gorda vitola. As for the blend, it uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, a Nicaraguan corojo 99 binder, and fillers from the Jalapa, Condega and Estelí regions of Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan tobacco comes from the farms of AJ Fernandez, who is also producing the cigar.
It will be priced at $9.50 per cigar and offered in five-packs. It is also a very limited release, with just 400 packs being produced.
The cigar gets its name from the final lines of a poem by John Donne, lines that went onto inspire the name of a book by Ernest Hemingway. However, eagle-eyed cigar smokers will notice a typo on the band, as it reads “For Who the Bells Toll,” something that Padilla attributed to a printing error when he made the announcement about the line via Cigar Aficionado. In the report, he noted that more sizes are in the plans for early 2022.
Padilla has not yet replied to an email seeking details about the cigar or confirming the accuracy of the report.
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, the G-League's Valley Suns, 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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