Sinistro Adds Perfectos to The Last Barbarian and Mr. Desflorado

At this year’s PCA Convention & Trade Show, Sinistro Cigars added a 6 x 56 perfecto vitola to both its The Last Barbarian and Mr. Desflorado lines, with the cigars scheduled to arrive at stores around mid-April.

The two new sizes share the same blend details as the other sizes in the line; The Last Barbarian uses a Dominican maduro wrapper, a Cameroon binder and a filler that includes what the company desrcibes as Dominican “super ligero,” as well as Nicaraguan ligero and seco, as well as ligero from Pennsylvania. The line debuted in a limited release in the summer of 2021 before getting a full release the following year.

Mr. Desflorado uses a Connecticut seed wrapper of undisclosed origin, a Cameroon binder, and fillers from Columbia, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua. It debuted at the 2023 PCA Convention and Trade Show.

Both lines are produced at Tabacalera El Artista in the Dominican Republic.

We decided to do the perfectos after having the factory roll us a few to smoke while at the beach in DR a little over a year ago,” Coleman Fine of Sinistro Cigars told halfwheel. “We enjoyed that size so much, that we decided to do a limited yearly run on them.”

Both cigars are priced at $13 each, and offered in boxes of 20 cigars, which are priced at $260. They are also both limited in production, with just 200 boxes being produced yearly. They join a 5 x 52 robusto and 6 x 54 toro in both lines.

Patrick Lagreid

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