At the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, the cigar industry got its first look at one of Pura Soul Cigars’ new releases, the Pura Soul Barber Pole. Other than its rhyming name, the cigar features the traditional barber pole wrapper design, using Honduran corojo and maduro wrappers, with a Honduran binder and filler underneath. It’s a limited production release that is being offered in three sizes, 5 x 50 ($11), 6 x 54 ($11.70) and 7 x 64 ($12), with each size packed in 20-count boxes that feature brand owner Robert Wright’s image in a silhouette with him holding the instrument he is known for, the saxophone. Wright says he is expecting to produce about 50,000 of the cigars in 2016. The Barber Pole was one of two new releases from Pura Soul this year, joining the Pura Soul Maduro, another Honduran puro. These two new releases bring the company’s portfolio to four lines, as they join the Pura Soul Nicaraguan and Pura Soul Honduran. While Pura Soul parted ways with Christian Eiroa’s CLE Cigar Co. in August 2014, the two still maintain a working relationship, one that Eiroa told halfwheel is “very friendly” when the departure was announced. The Pura ...
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