PRODUCT PROFILE
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014
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TOBACCO BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014
Charlie’s Choice: Captiva
Respected in the cigar-making industry for
nearly 100 years, Toraño Family Cigar Com-
pany’s Charlie Toraño has unveiled the first
cigar under his own name: Charlie Toraño
Captiva.
“Captiva, which is a very small island off
the coast of southwest Florida, is my favorite
place in the entire world,” explains Charlie
Toraño, who represents the fourth generation
in the Toraño tobacco family. “Every year I
plan a summer family trip there which serves
as my getaway from the everyday [life]. It
takes me back to the true essence of cigars.
I am able to smoke and simply relax as I feel
the pressures of life dissipate with every puff.
I am able to reflect, count my blessings and
recharge my batteries. The Captiva cigar is a
very elegant and flavorful cigar which repre-
sents the slow rhythms of the Island.”
The Captiva cigar features a beautiful oily
Ecuadorian wrapper and Nicaraguan fillers.
The cigar is medium- to full-bodied, with
notes of coffee, chocolate and sweet pep-
pery spice. Captiva will retail between $7.95
and $8.95, and will come in four sizes: Ro-
busto (5x52), Toro (6x50), Churchill (7x47),
and BFC (6x60). Toraño Family Cigar Com-
pany, torano.com
Arango Goes Gold
The long-popular “CAO Gold” blend of
cigars has joined the other benchmark
premium cigars in Arango Cigar Co.’s
Clasico series of private label brands, all
of which are exclusive to Arango and are
sold only to brick and mortar shops. CAO
Gold Clasico is made by General Cigar
Company usingsimilar tobaccos, wrap-
pers and binders to those in the regular-
market CAO Gold. The Clasicos bear the original CAO signature band with
its iconic entwined “CAO” initials and box art.
CAO Gold Clasico frontmarks, like those of the other Clasico lines, pay
tribute to notable Chicago areas: Mag Mile (5.5x44), Windy City (5x50),
Bucktown (6.125x52, Belicoso) and Gold Coast (6x60). The cigars are pre-
sented in space-saving Spanish cedar boxes of 15 cellophane-wrapped
cigars.
All Clasico Series cigars come in Natural wrappers only. The wrapper
is a tawny Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut Shade Leaf. Both the filler and
binder are made of Nicaraguan tobaccos, entubado-bunched for even,
plug-free smoking.
Suggested retail prices for Arango CAO Gold Clasicos range from $4.75
to $6.70. Arango Cigar, 800-222-4427
