The Cornelius & Anthony brand made its debut at last year’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show with a line named Meridian, and while it is not a well known brand at the moment, it is part of a larger company that has a long history in the tobacco business that started in Virginia in 1866. The second release is the aptly named Cornelius, an homage to Cornelius Bailey, who was the great-great-grandfather of Steven Bailey and the first of the five generations of the Bailey family to run the aforementioned tobacco company. The new brand is part of S&M Brands, which includes Bailey’s cigarettes and several other lines of both smaller machine made cigars and cigarette brands. Blend-wise, the Cornelius & Anthony Cornelius incorporates an Ecuadorian habano wrapper covering an Ecuadorian habano binder and filler tobaccos from Nicaragua. The cigars are rolled at El Titan de Bronze in Miami and shipped to retailers in March. There were three vitolas of the Cornelius & Anthony Cornelius at launch, all packaged in boxes of 20: Cornelius Corona Gorda (5 1/2 x 46) — $12 (Boxes of 20, $240) Cornelius Robusto (5 x 50) — $13.50 (Boxes of 20, $270) Cornelius Toro (6 x 50) — $15 (Boxes of 20, $300) Cigar Reviewed: Country of ...
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