Platinum Nova Trappist 1G Debuting at PCA 2023
Platinum Nova has announced that it has a new cigar called Trappist 1G queued up for next month’s PCA Convention & Trade Show.
The cigar uses an Ecuadorian habano 2000 oscuro wrapper, a Dominican binder, and a Pennsylvania broadleaf filler. The cigar comes in a sizable 7 1/4 x 54 figurado vitola, priced at $18.50 and offed in 10-count boxes. It is made at Terranova Cigar Factory SRL in the Santiago, Dominican Republic, a fairly new facility that was built specifically to support the Nova brand, according to Leonor Abzaradel, ceo of Platinum Nova Cigar. She added that it is owned and operated by the family office that owns the Platinum Nova Cigar brand.
As for the name, it comes from the Trappist-1 System, located a little more than 40 light-years away from Earth. In that system is an exoplanet named Trappist-1g, which is slightly larger than Earth, and which is the close in color to Platinum Nova’s branding. “It was introduced to us by Dr. Scott Bolton, a top NASA physicist and the founder of Juno and also a good friend of the chairman of the company, Dr. Amer Rustom,” said Abzaradel. “With that known we were inspired to come out with a very complex cigar, in an elegant shape covered in a beautiful habano 2000 oscuro wrapper.”
That planet is featured on the secondary band that the cigar wears, while a graphic of the Trappist-1 System appears on the inside of the box’s lid.
The Trappist 1G, which is being added as a regular production cigar to the company’s portfolio, is scheduled to begin shipping immediately following the trade show. Abzaradel added that the line may grow with different blends and sizes in the future.
Patrick Lagreid
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