Fifty years in the cigar business is certainly something to celebrate, and for Antillian Cigar Corporation, the party is spanning two years. In 2014, the company released the Sosa 50th Anniversary Pirámides, a 5 3/4 x 55 figurado that was based on the Sosa Classic, though it replaced the wrapper with a Cameroon-seed leaf from an undisclosed country in Latin America. An extremely limited edition, just 60 boxes of 25 cigars were produced, a total of 1,500 sticks, and each box was signed by Juan Sosa, Nelda Sosa, Arby Sosa and Juan Sosa, Jr. This year, the festivities continue with the Sosa Half Century, a limited edition that comes in a 6 x 50 toro vitola and uses a wrapper varietal you may not have seen before, Mexican-grown Cameroon seed. It was blended by Juan B. Sosa and made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia’s Factory No.4, where Sosa works as a production manager. It’s getting a much broader release, with 1,000 individually-numbered boxes of 25 cigars being produced. While the company traces its roots back to the Miami factory that Arturo and Juan Sosa opened in 1964, the family’s tobacco lineage can be traced back to the early part ...
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