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Rocky Patel
fol-
lowed up the success
of its value-priced
Catch 22 with a
Con-
necticut Catch 22
and the
Rocky Patel
Fifty-Five
. Both were
introduced at the com-
pany’s huge booth,
which featured live
entertainment and
a bar along with a
display showcasing
Sun Grown Maduro,
Tabaquero by Hamlet
and Rocky Patel Twen-
tieth.
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Miami Cigar & Co.
debuted
The Upset-
ters
, an infused/fla-
vored label developed
in collaboration with
Nick Melillo, as well as
the
Nestor Miranda
Collection
Corojo.
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Foundation Cigar
’s
Nick Melillo also intro-
duced
Charter Oak
, an
economy cigar paying
tribute to the unusu-
ally large oak tree that
became a symbol for
his home state of Con-
necticut.
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La Aurora Cigars
brought its Preferidos
Petite Coronas, an
Atlantic Coast exclu-
sive, nationwide and
introduced a Double
Barrel Aged (featuring
an Ecuadorian Habano
wrapper over a Do-
minican binder with
Dominican, Cameroon
and Brazilian fillers) to
its Preferidos line.
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Ventura Cigar Com-
pany
has released two
super-premium brands
for 2016,
Case Study
and
Archetype,
for
an impressive lineup
of 31 highly complex,
perfectly balanced
cigars in all (see Prod-
uct Profile for more
details).
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Among the many
introductions by Drew
Estate
were a slew of
Undercrown
cigars
and accessories:
Undercrown Shade
Flying Pig, Under-
crown Shade Tubos,
Undercrown Shade
Churchill, Undercrown
Shade 10-count metal
tins, Undercrown
Maduro Churchill, Un-
dercrown Maduro Tu-
bos, and Undercrown
Maduro 10-count
metal tins. Drew also
brought out line exten-
sions for its
Kentucky
Fire Cured Swamp
Thang
and
Swamp
Rat
cigars. The new
sizes include the 6x52
Kentucky Fire Cured
Swamp Thang Toro,
a 5x54 Kentucky Fire
Cured Swamp Thang
Robusto and a 6x46
Kentucky Fire Cured
Swamp Rat.
Camacho
brought
out a second cigar in
its new Brotherhood
Series; its
Check Six
cigars feature Cama-
cho’s Original Corojo
in the filler and a mul-
tinational blend from
Ecuador, Nicaragua
and the Dominican
Republic.
Introduced at IPCPR…
A mind-boggling number of products were debuted at this
year’s IPCPR show—far too many to list. But here are
a select few we thought worthy of noting.
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TOBACCO BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016