At the 2014 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, L’Atelier Imports made mention of a new cigar that would be coming out the following spring, Côte d’Or. They did it by featuring it on an illuminated panel of the booth, with little in the way of details other than that it would be a limited edition and it would be blended with pelo de oro tobacco. The company held to that tease, albeit a month later, when it shipped the L’Atelier Côte d’Or, a 7 x 47 soft-pressed Churchill priced at $16 per cigar or $160 for a box of 10, of which there were 2,100 produced. L’Atelier didn’t wait long on introducing an encore, as in December the company announced that L’Atelier Côte d’Or La Tâche, a 5 1/2 x 50 robusto version of the Côte d’Or blend, would be arriving in early spring. It would still come in 10-count boxes and would share the same $16 price tag as its larger sibling, but only 2,000 boxes were produced and it would be round as opposed to receiving a press. That blend is based around two notable tobaccos; the Ecuadorian Sancti Spiritus wrapper found on the L’Atelier Selection Spéciale, and Nicaraguan fillers that ...
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