Launching this month, Crux Cigars is the creation of Jeff Haugen and Joel Rogers, who also happen to be co-owners of Tobacco Grove in Maple Grove, Minn., as well as the cigar case company Armored Humidors. The pair have spent the past several years developing their debut pair of cigars, which include Ninfamaniac and Skeeterz. Besides their suggestive names, both cigars share a trait that is becoming more and more unusual among new cigar releases: they are incredibly small ring gauge. The Skeeterz is a 4 x 32, while the Ninfamaniac is a 7 x 33–-ninfa with double perfecto ends. Mark Daum, who designed the Ninfamaniac art, commented to halfwheel that it’s “the combination of a cigar in the ninfa tradition with a twist; the two ends that suggest a unique style and grace. Of course, the name suggests so much more, so I created the Ninfamaniac gal. A true nymph with suggested allure of something naughty but oh so nice.” Crux is releasing two versions of the Ninfamaniac, the original and the aptly named Ninfamaniac Dark, which uses a Nicaraguan sun grown wrapper from Jalapa instead of the Nicaraguan habano from Jalapa found on the original. The cigars are scheduled to ...
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