If there’s one trend in the cigar industry that has taken off in recent years, it’s creating limited edition releases for almost every holiday on the calendar. We have cigars with themes that draw on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July, and several that are inspired by one of my personal favorites: St. Patrick’s Day. Last year Quesada Cigars jumped on the St. Patrick’s Day bandwagon with the release of the Quesada Keg Edition, a single 6 x 50 toro vitola option packed in wooden kegs with a big green shamrock on top that clears up this isn’t designated for the nearest frat party, though they are designed to be paired with an Irish stout, with a blend of a Pennsylvanian broadleaf wrapper and Nicaraguan binder and filler. Just 250 kegs, each containing 21 cigars, were produced for that debut edition. For the second batch, Quesada kept the same blend and returned to Plasencia Cigars S.A. in Nicaragua for production but made a few changes, first increasing the release to three sizes, offering a Lonsdale (6 x 44, $5.95), Toro (6 x 50, $7.95) and Toro Gordo (6 x 60, $8.95). The band also got updated from the fairly generic ...
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