90 TOBACCO BUSINESS | MARCH / APRIL | 22 ON YOUR SHEL F Davidoff Year of the Tiger Wrapper: Connecticut Shape: Piramides Size: 5 x 52 MSRP: $42 (per cigar) Liga Privada Unico Year of the Tiger Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Shape: Toro Size: 6 x 48 MSRP: $24.38 (per cigar) VegaFina Year of the Tiger Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano Shape: Toro Size: 6 1/8 x 52 MSRP: $10.95 (per cigar) Plasencia Year of the Tiger Wrapper: Nicaraguan Shape: Toro Size: 6¼ x 54 MSRP: $40 (per cigar) Punch Fu Manchu Wrapper: Honduran Habano Shape: Toro Size: 6 x 50 MSRP: $5.99 (per cigar) Davidoff celebrated the Year of the Tiger with a cigar and packaging designed to grab your customer’s attention. Packaged in an alluring collectible box with a glass lid decorated with a golden tiger, this medium-bodied cigar offers cigar smokers notes of wood, nuts, spice and pepper all accented with a creamy flavor profile. The cigar’s wrapper, crafted to mimic the lines of a tiger, also makes this cigar stand out in humidors. Released exclusively to CoH Cigars of Hong Kong, Drew Estate set out to create a cigar that was adventurous, ambitious, powerful and commanding, much like a tiger. This cigar features dark, aircured tobaccos that were combined to create a dense, deeply textured and complex but smooth cigar that would take cigar smokers through a range of intense flavor experiences they would ultimately find satisfying and memorable. This limited edition cigar from VegaFina was blended by the famed Group de Maestros to be as fierce as the animal that adorns its band and box. VegaFina’s Year of the Tiger offers cigar smokers an irresistible flavor profile containing clove, coffee and cedar notes. Plasencia tapped into its extensive library of tobaccos to create this limited edition release. The Year of the Tiger is a mediumbodied Nicaraguan puro blended to create a deep and rich smoking experience. This cigar delivers notes of chocolate, nuts and spice during the initial draw. This year, Punch Cigars created a cigar inspired by a supervillain created by English author Sax Rohmer. Much like that character’s signature mustache, this boxpressed cigar has a long pigtail that extends from its cap. This is a full-bodied smoke with savory notes of earth, spice and sweet flavors that combine for a medium to fullbodied smoke that doesn’t break the bank. Cigar brands made the tiger king this year with Chinese New Year-themed limited releases. Celebrating the Year of the Tiger
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