For the last few years, Quesada Cigars has offered a promotion for those retailers that place orders with the company at the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show.

One retail store was chosen at random to receive a special cigar, of their choice. The retailers would be able to select any size that Quesada produces in any of its blends and receive 10 boxes of 10 cigars. While Tobacco Plaza of Great Neck, N.Y. has been selected twice, it had yet to receive any of its special cigars–until last week.

Danny Ditkowich, one of the store’s co-owners, selected a 9 x 60 version of Quesada’s Oktoberfest as the store does well with both Oktoberfest and large cigars. Five boxes of 10 arrived last week while the other five will arrive next week. The cigar is named after Marshall Holman, another of the store’s co-owners. Quesada uses the same size for an exclusive cigar for Finck Cigar Co.

Suggested retail pricing is $19.95 per cigar.

This is the 14th different vitola for the Oktoberfest line and the fourth single store exclusive.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.