David Blanco may very well be one of the most congenial people I talked to at the 2021 PCA Convention & Trade Show: helpful, forthcoming and clearly excited to be a part of the cigar industry. For this year’s show, his Blanco Cigar Co. brand is featuring a new blend made in collaboration with a popular cigar reviewer on YouTube as well as a sampler pack of toro vitolas.
Blanco Cigar’s booth is definitely more reserved than what it was in during the 2019 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show—there were no couches this year and fewer tables and chairs overall—but there did not seem to be a lack of customers flowing and out; in fact, I had to stop by multiple times in order to get owner David Blanco on camera for the video below.
After introducing the CO line in 2015—named after Bryan Glynn and his popular Cigar Obsession YouTube channel—Blanco’s newest line takes its name from Bryan Glenn himself. All four of the vitolas are box-pressed and feature both a pigtail on the cap and a closed foot except the Figurado, which has an open foot.
- Wrapper: Mexico (San Andrés)
- Binder: Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Cigar Obsession BG Reserve Short Lonsdale (5 1/2 x 46) — $10 (Box of 30, $300)
- Cigar Obsession BG Reserve Robusto (5 x 52) — $11 (Box of 20, $220)
- Cigar Obsession BG Reserve Figurado (5 3/8 x 60 x 54) — $15 (Box of 20, $300)
Production: Regular Production
Release Date: Aug. 7, 2021
Cigar Obsession BG Reserve Toro Barber Pole
The fourth vitola in the BG Reserve blend happens to also be the first barber pole-wrapped cigar in the Cigar Obsession line.
- Wrapper: Honduras (Connecticut Shade) & Mexico (San Andrés)
- Binder: Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Cigar Obsession BG Reserve Toro (6 x 52 Barber Pole) — $13 (Box of 30, $390)
Production: Regular Production
Release Date: Aug. 7, 2021
Cigar Obsession Toro Sampler
This $49 sampler includes four different cigars in the Cigar Obsession line, all in the same 6 x 52 toro vitola.
- Cigar Obsession 1st Third Toro (6 x 52)
- Cigar Obsession 2nd Third Toro (6 x 52)
- Cigar Obsession Final Third Toro (6 x 52)
- Cigar Obsession BG Reserve Toro (6 x 52 Barber Pole)
Production: Regular Production
Release Date: Aug. 7, 2021