Battleground Cigar will offer consumers a unique taste from its latest cigar scheduled to be unveiled at the IPCPR Convention and Trade Show next week, as the filler of the company’s new Mysterioso cigar includes a touch of authentic Louisiana Perique tobacco. Perique is a type of tobacco grown in Saint James Parish, Louisiana and is known for offering its powerful and strong profile but also for a sweet and fruity aroma. While there are records of tobacco being grown in the area as far back as the mid 1700s, it was a farmer named Pierre Chenet who is considered to be the inventor of Perique through a pressure-fermentation technique in 1824. The Battleground Cigar Mysterioso is made in the Dominican Republic with a dark Brazilian wrapper that sits on top of a blend of tobaccos from central and South America, as well as the Louisiana Perique. The company is billing it as a medium to full bodied cigar. It will be available in two sizes, both coming in eight-count boxes with the cigars in glass tubes. The 5 x 54 robusto is priced at $9.95 per cigar, while the 6 1/4 x 52 Torpedo is $10.95. If the Mysterioso name sounds ...
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