Ted’s Makes KY Derby 140
This Saturday is the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby. It’s an event marked by hats, mint juleps and on some occasion—cigars. Louisville-based Ted’s Cigars is the official cigar maker of the Kentucky Derby and is releasing a special cigar for the 140th anniversary.
The KY Derby 140 is a 6 x 50 cigar made by Victor Sinclair in the Dominican Republic. It features an Ecuadorian Connecticut shade wrapper, Ecuadorian sumatra binder and Dominican piloto cubano and criollo 98’ fillers.
It is priced at $10 per cigar and is sold in boxes of 25, with each cigar in a self-humidified tube. According to Ted’s, production is limited to 10,000 cigars and will be sold to retailers, although most sales are at Churchill Downs.
(Images via Ted’s Cigars)
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.
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