There’s a new Edición Regional cigar that is expected to arrive at stores in Austria in the coming days.
It’s the San Cristóbal de La Habana Obispo, a 4 7/8 (124mm) x 50 robusto size. Pricing is set at €19.80 per cigar, roughly $21.25. According to Cuban Cigar Website, this is just the second time an Edición Regional has been made exclusively for Austria, the other was the Juan López Ideales, part of the 2011 class of Edición Regional cigars.
The Obispo is limited to 6,000 boxes of 10 cigars. As for the name, Calle Obispo is a famous street in Old Havana, which includes the famous El Floridita bar.
The Edición Regional program is offered by Habanos S.A. to its various distributors around the world. Each year, distributors can select one cigar to be commissioned for their region, though there have been exceptions when some distributors have been able to select more than one. Those cigars must come from a brand that was not part of the company’s former “Global Brands” and must be a size that is currently not offered in that specific brand.
Edición Regional cigars are signified by a secondary red and silver band that reads Edición Regional followed typically by the name of the region represented by that specific distributor. Oftentimes, the cigars do not arrive at stores during the year they are selected for, sometimes multiple years later.
5th Avenue Products Trading GmbH is the Cuban cigar distributor for both Austria and Germany.