FDG Cigars, the company long known as Flor de Gonzalez, will be unveiling a new trio of cigars that has a familiar name but offers a new direction from the company. 90 Millas, Spanish for 90 Miles, the brand that FDG is well known for, will be unveiled with three variations, a Connecticut shade wrapped version, an Ecuadorian habano maduro wrapped version, and a third variant called Unidos, which will feature a barber pole design with Ecuadorian habano maduro and Connecticut shade grown in the United States. The name references the distance between the southern tip of Florida and Cuba, where the Gonzalez family traces its roots. “This line continues our tradition to honor the opportunity given to us by this country only 90 miles from our country of birth,” said Yadi Gonzalez-Vargas, president of FDG Cigars. The 90 Millas Unidos promises to be the most eye-catching of the three given its barber pole design, which Yadi Gonzalez-Vargas says is inspired by the changes taking place both in Cuba as well as in the relationship between Cuba and the United States. Underneath its dual wrapper lies a dual binder of Nicaraguan and Dominican tobaccos with Nicaraguan tobacco use for the ...
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