In October, Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac posted onto social media that there would be a final line extension for the Aquitaine brand, the 7 x 49 Epoch, and that it would be retailer exclusive release “somewhere West of the Mississippi.” We eventually learned that the store that would be receiving the new cigar was to be En Fuego Cigars & Lounge in Las Vegas, Nev., and that they will go on sale on Monday, March 9. As with the other Aquitaine vitolas, the Epoch uses the same Cameroon binder and filler tobaccos from Condega, Estelí and Pueblo Nuevo in Nicaragua that are in the CroMagnon line, but replaces the Connecticut broadleaf wrapper with an Ecuadorian habano ligero leaf. Only 1,250 total cigars were produced and sold in boxes of 10, with each cigar selling for $10.50. There are now 11 different vitolas in the Aquitaine line: Aquitaine The Knuckle Dragger (4 x 52) — $6.50 (Boxes of 24, $156) Aquitaine The Mandible (4 1/2 x 60) — $7.25 (Boxes of 24, $174) Aquitaine The EMH (5 x 56) — $7.75 (Boxes of 24, $180) Aquitaine The Anthropology (5 3/4 x 46) — $8 (Boxes of 24, $192) Aquitaine The Cranium (6 x 54) — $8.50 ...
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