In November, Bombay Tobak announced the addition of both a new blend and a new vitola with a familiar moniker: the Kēsara Vintage Reserve Nikka. While the cigar shares a name with the company’s Kēsara line, it is actually a slightly different blend, adding some Peruvian tobacco to the already existing Dominican tobacco in the filler, and keeping the same an Ecuadorian Havana binder and Ecuadorian Connecticut des florado 2002 wrapper. In addition, the new release uses tobaccos that are aged for three additional years compared to the regular Kēsara line, and these specific cigars are aged in a hybrid sandalwood and Spanish cedar coffin for up to nine months. “Refining the ‘MBombay Experience’ of fine long aged tobacco blends is what we have done in our Vintage Reserve line of cigars,” said Mel Shah, the founder and owner of MBombay, in a press release. “We want consumers to truly understand our passion for tobacco.” The vitola is also unique in the Kēsara line, a 6 1/2 x 46 cigar that is being sold in tubes of 10 with an MSRP of $12 each and according to Shah, there will be a limit of 2,500 cigars produced a year. In addition, while the launch date ...
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