On December 18, Alliance Cigar started offering its third manufacturer exclusive vitola under the DeSocio name, this time in the form of a new Oliva Serie V Melanio. Like the rest of the line, the 6 1/2 x 54 Oliva Serie V Melanio DeSocio is box-pressed and sold in boxes of 10. However, unlike the rest of the Melanio vitolas, it is limited to just 5,000 total cigars, with an MSRP of $12 each. The blend of the Oliva Serie V Melanio DeSocio is the same as the other sizes in the Melanio line: Nicaraguan tobacco for the binder and fillers and a wrapper made up of Ecuadorian Sumatra. A 6 1/2 x 52 maduro version was released earlier this year which uses the same filler and binder tobaccos as the regular line, but switches out the Ecuadorian Sumatra with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper. We published a news story about the Melanio DeSocio release earlier this month: Tom Sullivan, president of the New York-based distributor, told halfwheel the Melanio DeSocio will be offered to retailers beginning today, as well as through Sullivan’s online retail business, Superior Cigars. This is the third cigar to carry the DeSocio name following the Alec Bradley Tempus (6 x 54) ...
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