As has been the case for now 13 years, the months preceding spring mean one thing for General Cigar Co.—the Punch Rare Corojo. In recent years, General has made a single vitola exclusive under the Rare Corojo name a single-year release. This year, that release is a 7 1/4 x 57 perfecto known as the Rare Salomones. It features an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, a Connecticut broadleaf binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. While General Cigar Co. updated the packaging of the entire Rare Corojo line—now in bright red sliding-lid-boxes, the Rare Salomones is in a special white ten-count box. Cigar Reviewed: Punch Rare Corojo Rare Salomones Country of Origin: Honduras Factory: STG Danlí Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf Filler: Dominican Republic, Honduras & NIcaragua Size: 7 1/4 Inches Ring Gauge: 57 Vitola: Salomon MSRP: $7.99 (Boxes of 10, $79.90) Date Released: February 21, 2014 Number of Cigars Released: n/a Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 The Rare Salomones features a reddish wrapper that I suppose could pass for corojo, but my attention turns first to the bands, which are beautiful. They are not embossed, which would certainly have made them better, but the color scheme and ...
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