RoMa Craft Tobac Begins Shipping Quinquagenario

Nearly two years after the project was first announced, the collaboration between RoMa Craft Tobac and Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. of E.P. Carrillo is shipping to stores.

RoMa Craft Tobac has begun shipping Quinquagenario, a new 5 x 50 robusto that was made to celebrate the 50th birthday of Skip Martin, co-founder of RoMa Craft Tobac. Pronounced kwin-kwah-jin-ar-ee-oh, the word is a Spanish term to describe someone in their 50s.

The Quinquagenario uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper over a Dominican binder and Dominican fillers. Notably, it is made at Perez-Carrillo Jr.’s Tabacalera La Alianza S.A. in the Dominican Republic and not at Fábrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño S.A., the Nicaraguan factory that has made every RoMa Craft Tobac cigar up until this point.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $15. Production is limited to around 50,000 cigars, which will be split between 2,000 24-count boxes and a smaller number of 24-count bundles, the latter of which will ship at a later date.

Martin traveled to the Dominican Republic multiple times to work with Perez-Carrillo Jr. on the blend. He credits those visits with giving him a better understanding of Sumatra-seed wrappers from Ecuador, which helped Martin in developing Intemperance Volstead VO 1920, RoMa Craft Tobac’s latest regular production line.

Update (Oct. 24, 2023) — The original version of this story indicated that there would be a similar number of boxes and bundles. There will be 2,000 boxes and around 85 bundles.