Diadema Cigars de Honduras S.A.

At the end of 2023, Caldwell Cigar Co. gave two of its core lines an extension that might have been a first in the industry. The Blind Man’s Bluff Connecticut and Maduro got a sweetened tip option.

The Ferio Tego Metropolitan Host Hudson is a new 6 x 50 toro vitola for the sweet-tipped Host line. Currently, it’s only offered as part of a four-count sampler.

Released in April 2023, the third addition to Davidoff’s Camacho Factory Unleashed line is composed of Mexican San Andrés wrapper covering a binder grown in Honduras and a filler blend of tobaccos sourced from the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Like the first two cigars in the series, it was also rolled with an unfinished foot, meaning the filler tobaccos extend slightly past the bottom of the wrapper.

The first is a new regular production line, while the other was created to celebrate a major anniversary.

The cigar wrapper’s barber pole design is made by combining an Ecuadorian Connecticut leaf and a Mexican San Andres leaf.

After debuting in 2022, the newest release of Caldwell’s Long Live the King 11/07 includes two different blends.

The Blind Man’s Bluff Connecticut and Maduro blends are now offered with a sweetened tip. Same blends, same sizes, same pricing, but only in limited quantities.

While broadleaf tobacco may be most associated with the state of Connecticut, Camacho’s newest release showcases broadleaf from a different origin.

Both Robert Caldwell and his wife were born on Nov. 7. Regular readers of this site will know where this is going.

It is the only vitola in the line that comes pre-cut.

It’s billed as “a rugged and unapologetic, medium-intensity smoke.”