Contrary to what you see when you walk in your local retailer’s humidor, there is a demand for smaller vitolas, and companies are responding to that, including RoMa Craft Tobac, who has created a 10-cigar sampler featuring five blends in a 4 x 46 petit corona vitola. The sampler, called El Catador de las Petite Coronas, contains two each of the Aquitaine Pestera Muierilor, CroMagnon Pestera Muierilor, Intemperance BA XXI Intrigue, Intemperance EC XVIII Charity and Neanderthal HoxD. As was noted when the cigars began shipping, the Aquitaine, CroMagnon and Neanderthal have not been released in this size prior to the sampler. The sampler was released at the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show and was initially available only to retailers who attended the show, with just 600 samplers to be split up among those stores, with a limit of 10 samplers per storefront. It’s also the fourth sampler to bear the El Catador name, joining the El Catador de Los Perfectos, El Catador de Las Panetelas and El Catador de Los Gran Robusto, and the company has confirmed that a fifth is in the works for November, though what it will contain isn’t yet decided. As for the Neanderthal line, it ...
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