In May, Fratello Cigars founder Omar de Frias announced there would be a fourth size added to the Fratello Bianco line, the aptly named Fratello Bianco IV, a 6 1/2 x 54 toro gordo priced at $9.75 per cigar and sold in 20-count boxes. Launched in the summer of 2015, the Fratello Bianco was the follow-up to the company’s 2013 eponymously named debut, a cigar that used a Nicaraguan habano wrapper, Ecuadorian Sumatra binder and fillers from Nicaragua and Peru. For his sophomore release, de Frias went with a Mexican San Andrés negro wrapper on top of tobaccos from Nicaragua, Pennsylvania and Peru. While the original Fratello line had more distinctive names for each of the sizes, de Frias kept the names of the Fratello Bianco lines much simpler, simply referring to them numerically with Roman numerals: Bianco I (6 1/4 x 44), Bianco II (6 x 50), Bianco III (5 x 56) and Bianco IV (6 1/2 x 54). Additionally, the Fratello Bianco Boxer has been announced, a 6 1/4 x 52 box-pressed torpedo that shares its name with a cigar in the original line and brings the Fratello Bianco line to five regular production sizes. An event only size ...
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