In 2008, La Aurora announced plans to release a blend in a salomon vitola using tobacco for the wrapper, filler and binder that was all aged for five years. The so called Puro Vintage 2003 was a massive 7 1/2 x 58 cigar which only used tobacco harvested in 2003, and then aged for five years in cedar. Subsequent blends were released in 2011 using tobacco from 2004 and again in 2013 using tobacco from 2005, all in salomon vitolas. A post from a La Aurora named account on Cigar Pass has some details on the original release in 2008: …this is a limited edition of only 12,000 sticks, 1,500 boxes of 8 cigars each, its the same filler and binder of the original 100 Años blend, the wrapper is Ecuador 2003, I know its not a lot but the problem was, only two rollers made them sixty a day, after the cigar is bunched they draw teste [sic] each one, after that two hours in the press, after that the wrapper is put on, then draw tested again, this is done to have the a perfect draw, then eights [sic] months of aging… As of this date, there ...
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