In January 2015, Room101 announced the Ichiban Series, heralded by Matt Booth as “one of our finer works over the past five years and a recipe that I have been holding close for a while; waiting for the right time, the right project and the right people to share it with.” The series would be made up of eight store exclusives, each a unique size of the Ichiban blend with up to 1,000 boxes of ten cigars produced for each release. The fourth retailer selected for this series was STOGIES World Class Cigars in Houston, Texas, and for those who know about owner Jorge Ahued’s leanings towards cigar vitolas, it should come as no surprise that he picked a lancero. The 7 x 38 Mutante, one that has appeared in a number of Room101’s other lines, arrived on June 18, 2015, with just 600 boxes of 10 cigars produced. While the Room101 Ichiban Mutante bears the store’s name, it isn’t part of STOGIES’ H-Town Lancero series, a 10-cigar set that features ten different blends in the long and slender vitola. Had it been, it would have been the second Room101 in the series, with the Room101 Namakubi Ecuador H-Town Lancero released ...
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