For the past two years, Quesada has done an interesting thing at the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. Starting in 2013, they raffled off the chance for retailers to have a custom cigar made using one of the company’s lines and rolled in whatever size they choose. Winning retailers would get 200 cigars in the form of 10 20-count boxes. In 2013 Binny’s Beverage Depot based out of Chicago, Ill. won the raffle, and its choice was to use the Oktoberfest blend and have a lancero rolled. While lanceros might not be the most popular size in cigars, they are certainly some of the most sought after by a vocal minority of cigar smokers. This was an exciting choice by Binny’s not just because it was a lancero, but because the Oktoberfest line had not had a lancero released for it before or after this. With our love of lanceros here at halfwheel and the extremely limited nature of the release, we of course had to put this in the running for our holy grail week. The Oktoberfest lineup currently has 10 different sizes between the yearly releases and the limited special releases. Oktoberfest Über (6 x 65) — $8.95 (Boxes of ...
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