Earlier this month, Binny’s Beverage Depot, the Illinois-based chain of liquor and tobacco shops, announced that it had received a store-exclusive release from Curivari’s Buenaventura line. The cigar was announced in early September, a somewhat surprising bit of news given the Curivari is a very under-the-radar company when it comes to news and projects such as this. The Buenaventura line was launched in 2012 as a value-oriented option in the Curivari portfolio, as each of the three core sizes—the 6 x 60 BV600, 5 1/2 x 56 BV560 and 5 1/4 x 50 BV500–-all retail for under $6 per cigar, before taxes. Despite having been on the market for more than two years now, the Buenaventura line remains absent from the Curivari website, and there’s little information about its backstory available online, other that brand owner Andreas Throuvalas, himself a former cigar retailer, wanted to deliver a flavorful yet still wallet-friendly cigar. While both the Buenaventura line and Curivari may be unfamiliar to many American cigar smokers, it launched in Europe back in 2003 before crossing the ocean to domestic humidors in 2010. It has grown to an impressive number of facings, including Seleccion Privdada, Gloria de Leon, El Gran ...
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