RM Cigars Launching Solace Janus at PCA 2023

Roberto Martinez’s RM Cigars will launch one of the more unique-looking new cigars at next month’s 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show.

It’s called Janus, the first cigar in the company’s new Solace series. It’s a 6 x 50 toro, but it doesn’t look like most standard toros. That’s because half the cigar uses a baberpole wrapper configuration—where two wrappers are placed offset from one another to create an appearance akin to the striped pole oftentimes used to identify a barber shop—while the other half looks like a standard cigar with just one wrapper used.

The top half of the cigar uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over four different fillers: two Dominican tobaccos, seco from Nicaragua and tobacco from Pennsylvania. The bottom half of the cigar is the same as the company’s Tigress line, a barberpole with Connecticut and Mexican San Andrés wrappers over fillers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Pennsylvania. An Indonesian binder is used throughout the entire cigar.

Martinez told halfwheel that he expects the cigar to have a retail price between $15-19. The Janus will come in boxes of 10 cigars and is described as “very limited.” Shipping is expected to begin two weeks after the 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which takes place July 8-11 in Las Vegas.

The company makes cigars at its RM Tabacalera factory in Tamboril, Dominican Republic.