In July, Quesada Cigars and the Placencia family announced they were teaming up for a new release under the Fonseca line which would feature all Nicaraguan tobacco for the first time in the brand’s history. Appropriately named Fonseca Nicaragua, the new blend is made up of tobacco from three of Nicaragua’s four different growing regions—Estelí, Jalapa and Ometepe—and was formally released at the 2016 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. “Because this is the first time we will make a Fonseca outside of the Dominican Republic we wanted it to create a special cigar that everyone can afford to smoke and so we approached this project with the concept of creating a $10-12 cigar for $4-6,” said Terence Reilly, general manager of Quesada Cigars, in a press release. “The result is a complex, nuanced cigar that we believe will be the best value on the market.” Internally, the blend features a Nicaraguan criollo ’98 wrapper from the Jalapa region, while the binder and filler tobaccos hail from the Estelí and Ometepe regions of the county. The new line was introduced in three vitolas, all of which are being sold in 20-count boxes, and is being produced at Plasencia Cigars S.A. in Estelí. Two of the vitolas—the ...
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