At the 2016 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Padilla Cigars released two very different anniversary cigars: the Padilla Anniversary and the Padilla 85th Anniversary de Heberto Padilla. While the Padilla Anniversary is a six vitola line produced to commemorate the company’s 13 years in business, the other release has a more unique purpose. In fact, as the name implies, the Padilla 85th Anniversary de Heberto Padilla is a release that commemorates company owner Ernesto Padilla’s father, the noted Cuban poet Heberto Padilla, who passed away in 2000 at the age of 68. The new cigar is being rolled at Yaxel Ortiz’s The Best Cigars S.A. factory in Nicaragua and is composed of a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper covering Nicaraguan tobacco in both the binder and filler as well as additional undisclosed tobaccos. In an email, Padilla told halfwheel that the cigars are a “limited regular production” and were shipped to a number of “very select retailers” prior to the Aug. 8 deadline imposed by FDA. There are five different vitolas, all of which are packaged in boxes of 20 and retail between $9 and $11 per cigar: Padilla 85th Anniversary de Heberto Padilla Double Toro (6 x 60) Padilla 85th Anniversary de Heberto Padilla Figurado (6 x 54) ...
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