PCA 2022: Selected Tobacco S.A.

Selected Tobacco S.A. did not attend the 2021 PCA Convention & Trade Show, but the company has no dearth of new releases it is showing off to interested parties this year.

While talking to Oliver Nivaud, director of operations at United Cigars—which distributes Selected Tobacco S.A. in the U.S. market—he told me that pricing has not been finalized on many of the new releases and also mentioned the names of a few creations that the company is planning on releasing in 2023. These include the Nelson brand—named after the company’s founder, Nelson Alfonso—the Alfonso Grand Seleccion line and various ashtrays.

A few words instantly popped into my mind when I saw the brand new Selected Tobacco S.A. booth at this year’s PCA Convention & Trade Show: grandiose, expensive, elegant. It is huge inside and out, and has plenty of room not only to show off the various releases, humidors and ashtrays; it also has a few different meeting spaces, a private office and plenty of room for people to move around. I have always thought that Selected Tobacco S.A. has some of the more impressive packaging in the industry across a number of lines—including Atabey and Byron—and the booth does a great job of showing that off.

Atabey Humidor

This humidor features 60 Atabey cigars—five of each vitola—arranged with 20 on the top shelf, 20 in the front drawer and 10 on each of the side drawers. Only 250 humidors will be released and like the Byron 19th Century Epique Poemas Humidor, there is no separate charge for the humidor itself.

MSRP: TBD

Production: 250 Humidors of 60 Cigars (15,000 Total Cigars)

Release Date: Late 2022

Alfonso 

This new line is named after Nelson Alfonso and includes cigars have aged for a total of five years in an aging room with oak as well as multiple types of cedar. There are six vitolas total, with each size getting a total release of only 200 boxes.

• Wrapper: Ecuador
• Binder: Ecuador
• Filler: Nicaragua & Peru

• Alfonso Añejos No. 1 (4 x 50) — TBD (Box of 10, TBD)
• Alfonso Añejos No. 2 (5 x 52) — TBD (Box of 10, TBD)
• Alfonso Añejos No. 3 (6 x 54) — TBD (Box of 10, TBD)
• Alfonso Añejos No. 4 (6 3/4 x 56) — TBD (Box of 10, TBD)
• Alfonso Añejos No. 5 (7 1/2 x 58) — TBD (Box of 10, TBD)
• Alfonso Añejos No. 6 (9 x 50) — TBD (Box of 10, TBD)

Production: 200 Boxes of 20 Cigars (10,000 Total Cigars) for each vitola

Release Date: October 2022

Byron 19th Century Epique Poemas Humidor

The name of this cigar translates to “Epic Poems” and it is packaged in a brand new humidor that Selected Tobacco is giving out as a sort of thank you to retailers. The humidor includes 80 cigars and the retailers have to purchase all 80 to get the package, but there is no separate charge for the humidor itself.

MSRP: $2,960

Production: 500 Humidors of 80 Cigars (40,000 Total Cigars)

Release Date: Fall 2022

Update (Oct. 27, 2022) — The original version of this post incorrectly stated the MSRP of the Byron 19th Century Epique Poemas Humidor as $29,060, it is $2,960.