In August 2015, Charlie Minato introduced a new Dominican-only brand to readers of halfwheel by way of his review of the Chogüí Primera Edición, a cigar that he got introduced to by Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac and others on Instagram. Chogüí’s debut cigar was released in November 2014 but only to retailers in the Dominican Republic and in fairly limited quantities, as just 6,000 cigars were produced. As a follow-up to its debut, Chogüi released the Dos77 in July 2015, a cigar with a unique tie-in to the Primera Edición. As the story goes, during the drive between the undisclosed factory in Tamboril where the Primera Edición was made and the destination of Santo Domingo, one box of cigars was lost: box number 277. That lost box became the inspiration for the company’s sophomore release, Dos77, or 277. It also became the basis for the date that the cigars would go on sale in the Dominican Republic: July 27, or 27/7 in one stylization. Dos77 is a 5 x 52 vitola dubbed Rogusto, a cross between robusto and gusto, with a Havana-seed Dominican wrapper, criollo 98 binder and a filler blend that contains “habano 2020” and corojo. While this ...
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