Davidoff will be adding a new limited edition size to its popular Winston Churchill line next month in the form of the The Raconteur, a 6 x 56 gran toro. The Raconteur is a slightly modified version of the standard Winston Churchill blend. It uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper compared to the Ecuadorian Rojiza wrapper on the regular version. While they both use a Mexican San Andrés negro binder and a combination of Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers, The Raconteur features a 15-year-old Dominican San Vicente ligero alongside piloto visos, hybrid olor/piloto visos, piloto seco and Nicaraguan ligero from Estelí and seco from Condega. There’s also a slight different look as a secondary band has been added with some of Sir Winston Churchill’s more iconic quotes. “When talking to his great-grandson, Randolph Churchill, I discovered that Sir Winston had written as much as Shakespeare and Dickens put together,” said Charles Awad, svp of global marketing and innovation for Oettinger Davidoff AG, in a press release. “This Limited Edition honours one of the most dazzling raconteurs and prolific writers the world has ever known.” Davidoff relaunched its Winston Churchill line a year ago with four standard cigars, each paying tribute to one of six faces of ...
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