In early 2011, Quesada handed out samples of a then mostly unknown blend to a few people at the Pro Cigar Festival in the Dominican Republic. Called the Selección España for obvious reasons, the blend was initially made exclusively for the Spanish market, but after some great early reports from samples handed out at various events, a very limited number of boxes of the three original vitolas – Corona, Robusto and Short Robusto – were shipped to a few retailers in the U.S. every month. In 2012, Quesada decided to release a limited number of 7 x 38 lanceros in the España blend in a fairly unique manner: every month, a Quesada retailer was chosen at random via raffle and shipped one cabinet of 50 lanceros, making the total production for the vitola a microscopic 600 cigars. In December of 2013, Charlie Minato broke the news that the one cabinet a month Quesada Selección España shipment would continue in 2014, but with a new 7 x 33 Ninfa and a new way of choosing which retailers received the cigar. First Quesada made an España Lancero, now they are onto something even thinner. While the company will no longer be sending one retailer a month a ...
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