RoMa Craft Tobac Makes Aquitaine Blockhead a Store Exclusive

Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac has announced that the Aquitaine Blockhead will soon become a store exclusive for Monte’s Pueblo Pipe Shop in Albuquerque, N.M.

In an email sent to halfwheel, Martin said that the 6 x 54 box pressed gran toro will be released on December 20th with a price of $9.00 per cigar and $90.00 per ten-count box. He added that it will be primarily reserved for walk-in customers, though a limited number will be available for phone and mail order.

The Aquitaine blend uses an Ecuadoran Habano Ligero wrapper with filler leaf coming from three separate areas of Nicaragua: Estelí, Condega and a small farm on the Honduran border called Pueblo Nuevo, and the binder coming from Cameroon.

Currently, the Aquitaine line is available in five regular production sizes:

• Aquitaine The Knuckle Dragger (4 x 52) — $6.50 (Boxes of 24, $156)
• Aquitaine The Mandible (4 1/2 x 60) — $7.25 (Boxes of 24, $174)
• Aquitaine The EMH (5 x 56) — $7.75 (Boxes of 24, $186)
• Aquitaine The Anthropology (5 3/4 x 46) — $8.00 (Boxes of 24, $192)
• Aquitaine The Cranium (6 x 54) — $8.50 (Boxes of 24, $204)

He added that the CroMagnon Blockhead, which was released earlier this year, is still available in limited quantities through Tower Pipes & Cigars in Sacramento, Calif. and Tobacco Grove in Maple Grove, Minn.

Patrick Lagreid

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