If you put all of Nomad Cigar Co.’s releases on a table and told me to pick one, I’d have a difficult time. It’s not that I don’t know which Nomad release I’d choose, I do; rather, I really don’t know what it exactly it looks like. The cigar I’d choose is the Nomad Estelí LE Lot 1386, a limited edition cigar that Fred Rewey released in 2013. The problem? It sort of looks like every other Nomad with no special markings or identifiers other than it’s the only 6 x 52 toro the company has done. For most people, the issue with the Lot 1386 is not that it didn’t get special packaging, but rather that it was limited to just 307 boxes of 12 cigars. The cigar was received successfully, our own Brooks Whittington rated it 91 and it finished in 12th on The Consensus that year, but Rewey’s backstory on the cigar was that there was at least one particular tobacco used that was limited to just two bales. Rather than trying to make more bales magically appear, Rewey choose to create a follow-up cigar that would be similar to the 1386, hence Estelí Lot 8613. The new ...
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