San Cristóbal de La Habana Reinas Selected for Colleción Habanos Series

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the San Cristóbal de La Habana brand, and Habanos S.A. is marking the occasion with two new cigars.

One of them is the appropriately named San Cristóbal de La Habana 25 Aniversario; the other will only be sold in cigar boxes that are designed to look like books. That’s because the San Cristóbal de La Habana Reinas has been formally announced as the Colección Habanos release for 2024.

The San Cristóbal de La Habana Reinas measures 6 9/10 (175mm) x 55, a new size for the Cuban cigar world, a vitola called Maravillas No. 5. Interestingly, it’s almost the same size as the Cohiba Idealeas, the most recent Colección Habanos release, though that cigar measured 175mm x 56 ring gauge, not 55.

Production will be limited to 3,000 boxes of 20 cigars, which will only be sold at La Casa del Habano franchise stores. Pricing has not been announced, but the annual Colección Habanos release is oftentimes the most expensive new cigar Habanos S.A. will release in a given year. For context, the Cohiba Ideales had a list price of more than $500 per cigar when it debuted in the United Kingdom last year.

Like the 2024 class of Edición Limitada cigars, the San Cristóbal de La Habana Reinas had been mentioned privately as a potential 2022 release. Until today, Habanos S.A. said nothing about the cigar publicly and officially—like the Edición Limitada series— there will be no Colección Habanos releases for 2022 and 2023. As with many other new Cuban cigars, this cigar might be a “2024 release,” though there’s little guarantee the cigar will go on sale this year.

Brooks Whittington contributed to this story.

This story is part of halfwheel’s coverage of the Festival del Habano XXIV, the 2024 edition of Cuba’s annual cigar festival. For more coverage of the festival, click here.