At this point, if an Edición Regional release comes out the following year, there’s not really much surprise from the general cigar smoking public. This was of course the case when Habanos S.A. finally released the Bolívar Bosphorus in April of 2015, which was the Edición Regional for Turkey in 2014. For a little bit of the history of the Edición Regional program, we’ll look back at what Patrick Lagreid wrote about it: The Edición Regional program sees Habanos S.A., the marketing and distribution company behind Cuban cigars, create unique, limited vitolas for its distributors around the world. Sizes must be those that are in the Habanos S.A. portfolio, but not amongst the regular production offerings for the brand, although some discontinued regular sizes can be created. New vitolas created for a certain brand are also not eligible to be used. In addition, the “global” brands—i.e. Cohiba, H. Upmann, Hoyo de Monterrey, José L. Piedra, Montecristo, Partagás and Romeo y Julieta—are not eligible to be made into an Edición Regional. Since 2012, distributors have been limited to a single release per year, a change from prior years when some distributors would receive multiple releases per year. Distributors are the ones to ...
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