The Altadis U.S.A. booth was a busy place to be early in the week, as the company had a handful of limited editions that sold out on day one and several other new releases that were gaining quite a bit of attention. Henry Clay Tattoo While it is hard to pick a headliner, the reaction for the collaboration with Pete Johnson of Tatuaje that will result in the Henry Clay Tattoo was hard to deny, as all 2,500 boxes of 25 were sold out on the first day of the show. They will be priced at $9.50 per cigar when they hit shelves as early as the end of July. The cigar uses a dark Connecticut broadleaf wrapper from the 2010 vintage, Dominican piloto binder from the 2010 vintage and fillers from the 2012 vintage Dominican olor, 2012 vintage Dominican piloto and 2013 vintage Nicaraguan criollo from Ometepe. Montecristo 80th Anniversary The other big headliner in the Altadis U.S.A. booth was the Montercristo 80th Anniversary, a cigar that brings back a tobacco varietal called Pilotico, a Dominican-grown Cuban seed that hadn’t been used in some time due to how it responded to a certain type of disease. Those issues have ...
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