The calendar may have just turned to September, but the newest release from Tarazona heading to stores is focused on the end of October. Halloween, to be specific.

The cigar is the Tarazona La Bruja Broomstick, and it is designed to look like its name, with bruja the Spanish word for witch. The cigar features three Ecuadorian-grown wrappers, a Connecticut shade leaf, a habano leaf, and a candela leaf. Underneath those is a Nicaraguan binder and fillers, the latter of which come from the country’s Condega and Jalapa regions. The wrappers are cut in such a way so as to resemble a broom handle, while the exposed fillers are designed to evoke an image of a broom’s bristles.

The cigar is offered in a 7 1/8 x 57 figurado vitola and comes with an MSRP of $17 cigar or $170 for a box of 10 cigars. They are made at Tabacalera Papito Cigars, with 500 boxes of 10 being produced.

Tarazona has a follow-up slated for the Christmas season, a 5 x 50 vitola called Misfit Toys that comes in gift-wrapped ten packs featuring art by David Angelo Roman, an artist who has done work for the Rick and Morty franchise.

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