Brian Chinnock of Chinnock Cellars Cigars is branching out from his wine-themed series of cigar lines and turning to cognac for a new limited edition line called XOXO that is scheduled to debut at the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show this July in New Orleans and head to retail shortly after the show. Chinnock is keeping many of the details on the new line under wraps, but told halfwheel that the cognac being used is “one of the most expensive in the world.” He returns to El Titan de Bronze in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood for the XOXO’s production, working with Sandy Cobas on how to bring the cigar to fruition. He credits her with figuring out how to spray each leaf and then store them so they retain their aromatics, and said that she is the one doing the spraying. While cognac is a key ingredient to the XOXO line, Chinnock isn’t completely abandoning his wine roots, however, as the cigars will be individually packaged in glass tubes that feature a wine foil covering made by the Ramondin Company in Spain, who Chinnock said makes a significant number of foils for the wine industry. The foil will be handspun on each tube ...
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