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General Cigar president Daniel Nunez, a native Dominican, has been devoted to the creation of a Dominican puro for more than a decade and finally has it in the Cohiba Puro Dominicana. It includes leaves from several of General’s Dominican farms. The unique flavor comes, in part, from aging of leaves in charcoaled wooden barrels and is described as “smooth” and “ultra-refined.” It comes in five sizes at retail prices of $13.50 to $20.50 each.

  • Philip Wynne debuted a unique cigar – “the best I have ever made” – for his Petrus line, the Petrus Prestige Sublime. It’s made from real Cuban seeds . . . seeds that came from Cuba about a year ago! Grown in the Dominican Republic, the wrapper and binder are from seeds used for planting in the Vuelta Arriba regions in the central and eastern areas of Cuba and the filler is from seeds used in the famed Vuelta Abajo.

    Wynne blended this tobacco to create a flavorful and medium-bodied blend in four shapes in boxes of 20, with pricing from $5.00 to $12.00 per cigar.

  • Another echo of Cuba came from veteran cigar maker Juan Sosa, who introduced a new blend called “Santa Julia.” It’s a special cigar for Sosa, whose family grew tobacco in Cuba until that industry was nationalized in 1961. The name of the family’s farm was Santa Julia.

    Sosa left Cuba and eventually started making cigars. His newest release is medium in body and features a Nicaraguan-grown Corojo wrapper, Dominican binder and Honduran filler in six sizes. Like all Sosa products, the prices are as agreeable as the cigars, with suggested retail prices from $3.2 to $5.50 each.

  • Perhaps the most unbelievable cigar on the floor is the new C.A.O. Holiday Press Cameroon. It’s a single, unique size: a trapezoidal cigar made from a special mold that was originally created for the company’s holiday gifts.

    Housed in a gold-colored box which resembles a gold bar in shape, the Holiday Press has a flat bottom (think of a tongue depressor), two short sides and then two longer sides that meet in a plateau at the top. Strange? Yes, but wild and well made. The blend is the same as in the popular C.A.O. l’Anniversaire Cameroon line, but the Holiday Press are six inches long by 71 ring gauge along the bottom. It’s not too wildly priced, however, at $8.60 per cigar, not including local taxes.

    There were plenty of other highlights and we’ll have more tomorrow from what may be the last IPCPR show in Las Vegas for a long time thanks to recently-passed smoking bans which will be more strictly enforced in the future.

    And the winner is:
    Congratulations to Jeff Dowden of Newport Beach, California, winner of our “Register & Win” drawing for a free box of Montecristo Habana 2000 Especial No. 2 Maduros from our Perelman, Pioneer & Company humidors, courtesy of Mike’s Cigars.

    Up for your pleasure this week is a big-value bundle of El Credito Super Habanero maduros: full-flavored cigars of 7 1/2 inches by 46 ring gauge. Made by hand under the direction of Ernesto Perez-Carrillo in the Dominican Republic, they’re medium in body and provided courtesy of our friends at Mike’s Cigars.. The box will be awarded in our drawing to be held on Sunday, February 20.

    To enter, just click on the “Register & Win” tab above and fill out the required information. If you have entered in the past, there is no need to re-enter; all past entries are carried forward to future drawings. You must be 21 or older to win; good luck!
    ~ Rich Perelman
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