As part of its very first batch of Edición Regional releases, The Pacific Cigar Co. Ltd., distributors of Habanos S.A. products throughout much of southeast Asia, selected a pair of cigars for its customers: the Punch Super Robusto and Ramón Allones Estupendos. The former is a 6 1/10 x 50 robusto extra, while the latter is the well known Julieta No.2 vitola, a 7 x 47 Churchill that is well-known in the Habanos catalog and throughout the cigar world as being named for the statesman Sir Winston Churchill. As documented numerous times before, the Edición Regional program was launched in 2005 and allowed distributors to work with Habanos S.A. in creating limited edition sizes for their region, using an existing vitola in the portfolio but not one that appears in a marca’s existing regular production. Additionally, the ten worldwide global and niche brands—Cohiba, Montecristo, Partagás, Romeo y Julieta, H. Upmann, Hoyo de Monterrey, José L. Piedra, Cuaba, San Cristóbal and Trinidad—leaving 17 vitolas to pick from. As evidenced in the 11 years of releases since, both Punch and Ramón Allones have become two of the most popular of the marcas to choose from for Edición Regional releases. The Ramón Allones ...
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