First black, then gold and now white. In February, the third and final installment of the Room101 Master Collection will arrive on shelves, this time sporting a lot of glossy white. For those familiar with the previous releases, the details will sound quite familiar: a total of 105,000 cigars divided up between five familiar sizes. For those unfamiliar, Master Collection was launched in late 2013 described as Room101 founder Matt Booth’s most ambitious cigar project to date. It prominently featured the new Room101 sakura (cherry blossom) logo in high-gloss black boxes that could be combined to create a larger image. Cigar-wise, Booth said it was the best cigar he had released to date, something many agreed with. Given that it was named Master Collection One, a Master Collection Two was of no surprise when it arrived last year. The theme for that release was gold—which was fairly obvious given the gold on gold boxes and bands. Blend-wise, Master Collection Three uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper, Dominican binder and fillers from Nicaragua. It’s described as a 3/5 on Davidoff’s internal intensity scale. As Room101 has done of late, the cigars are split up amongst five sizes—although production is not equal between ...
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