Selected Tobacco Releases Trio of Aged Byron Releases

If you aren’t patient enough to age cigars yourself, some companies are willing to do the work for you. One of them is Selected Tobacco S.A.—the company behind the Atabey, Bandolero and Byron brands—which has just released the newest editions of its vintage cigars, three different aged Byron releases.

All three cigars are special versions of existing cigars that have been aged for either four or five years after rolling and will come in special packaging.

Note: Based on the image below, it would appear that the cigars have actually aged for six years, not the five that was described in a press release from United Cigars. An email sent to United seeking to clarify this has not been returned.

The Byron 19th Century Grand Poemas 2015 Vintage is a 6 x 56 toro extra that uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over an undisclosed binder and fillers from Nicaragua, Peru and an undisclosed country(s). A Vintage release of the Poemas most recently happened in 2019. The Byron 20th Century Habaneros 2015 Vintage is a 6 x 54 toro extra that uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over a binder from an undisclosed country and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Peru and an undisclosed country(s). Both cigars have been aged five years after rolling.

Slightly less vintage is the Byron 21st Century Elegantes 2016 Vintage, a 6 1/8 x 55 parejo, that uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over a Dominican binder and fillers from Peru and an undisclosed country(s). It has been aged for four years after rolling.

The cigars will come in special humidor boxes containing 25 cigars. Those boxes use French white oak on the inside and include a hygrometer and humidifier. Each release has an MSRP of $34 per cigar and is limited to 200 boxes of 25 cigars. Those boxes are different from the boxes used for non-vintage Byron cigars—which are also designed to double as a humidor—and are individually numbered.

United Cigars is the U.S. distributor of Selected Tobacco S.A.

Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.