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PADRON 40THS WORTH $40 A STICK

Super Super Bowl offer from Corona Cigar

Los Angeles, February 2 – The inventive CigarAuctioneer.com site got a big response to its offer of 40 individual Padron Serie 1926 40th Anniversary cigars and a special Padron humidor: $40 apiece!

The highest bid came in at $50.00 for one cigar and the lowest winning bid at $36.00. The combined total for all 40 cigars was $1,606.04, right at $40 each. That puts the Padron 40th Anniversary – a 6 1/2-inch by 54-ring torpedo – in the same class as the Fuente Fuente Opus X, which also sells at auction in the $30 to $40 range per cigar.

The specially-carved Padron humidor which held the 40th Anniversary cigars was also up, with bidding at $400 with a day to go.

The special Macanudo Duke of York cigars made for the Republican National Convention held in New York last summer also sold out in a concurrent auction. A total of 200 cigars were up and all were sold, with a cumulative total of $1,551.84, about $7.76 each. The highest bid was $13.00 for one cigar, while the lowest winning bid was $7.00. One buyer spent $210 for 30 of the RNC souvenir cigars and received a bonus: one of General Cigar’s special RNC humidors, which originally housed 100 of the special, double-banded cigars.

Super Bowl special from Corona Cigar Co.:
There will be plenty of cigars smoked this Sunday while the Eagles and Patriots go at it in Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville – home of Swisher International, by the way – and Orlando-based Corona Cigar Company has a special that will take care of you and your friends.

It’s a 20-cigar pack that includes 17 different brands and covers the tasting spectrum. There are C.A.O. l’Anniversaire Cameroon and Maduro, C.A.O. Gold and Criollo, two sizes of Perdomo2, two sizes of Cigar Parejo (both 60-plus ring!), Carlos Torano’s Exodus 1959 and Exodus Silver 1959, two sizes of Gurkha Master’s Select, two Indian Tabac classic-blend cigars, two of Corona’s own Cielos and four of Corona’s own house blend. Something for everyone and only $59.95!

Even better is the added-value leather humidor package that accompanies the cigars, a handsome item all on its own. Congratulations to general manager Jeff Wojtanowski for assembling a terrific offer at a terrific price.

Trouble in Texas:
Bar and restaurant owners in Corpus Christi obtained a temporary restraining order halting a new ordinance prohibiting smoking on Monday, less than 24 hours before it was due to go into effect.

A hearing on the ordinance will be held on Thursday. If upheld, smokers in indoor facilities will be handed a card which says “It is a criminal offense to smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette, or pipe in the portion of the premises where you are presently located. PLEASE EXTINGUISH IMMEDIATELY. Your compliance is appreciated.”

What are the odds that such a card, when handed to a smoker, will itself be set ablaze?

Restaurant owners and other civil libertarians are now collecting signatures to place a smoking/no-smoking initiative on a citywide ballot and have until March to obtain the required total.

In Lubbock, a thief entered a Nothin Butt Smokes store through the drive-through window (a tobacco store with a drive-through window?!) and ended up stealing $400 and ignoring the main inventory of cigarettes, took a box of cigars before leaving the scene. No arrest has been made yet.

Thanks, Lew:
Eagle-eyed reader Lew Rothman of J-R Cigars noted that in our list of cigar anniversaries last week, we missed the 160th birthday of one of the most famous brands ever: La Corona.

Born in Cuba in 1845, it was a mainstay brand for the Tabacalera Cubana, which dominated sales of Cuban-made cigars in the U.S. beginning around 1900 and continuing through the nationalization of the Cuban tobacco industry in 1960. In Cuba, the brand essentially died in the 1960s as the number of active brands was trimmed from 140 on January 1, 1959 to about 30 after the Cuban Revolution.

The La Corona brand was revived by the Cubans in the late 1980s as a machine-made brand for sale primarily to Eastern European countries which were part of the Warsaw Pact. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the market dried up and the La Corona brand was discontinued.

In the U.S., where the La Corona Corona had been one of the top sellers for decades, the brand languished until revived as a hand-made cigar from the Dominican Republic in 1998. It’s now made in Honduras, but has never regained its hold on American smokers.

The old factory in Havana which produced so many La Corona Coronas is still humming, however, and is one of the largest producers of Cuban cigars today.
~ Rich Perelman

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