Battleground Cigar, the Connecticut-based manufacturer of cigars with a historical theme to them, will be adding an additional packaging format to its “Widow’s Son” blend at the 2014 IPCPR Convention and Trade Show which kicks off on July 19 in Las Vegas, Nev. Known for lines that have featured historical American icons such as Ulysses S. Grant, George A. Custer, Robert E. Lee and numerous others, in 2012 the company released “The Widow’s Son,” named for Gen. Lewis Armistead. That cigar has been previously released in a 5 x 42 corona, 6 1/4 x 50 torpedo, 5 1/2 x 54 robusto and 6 1/2 x 54 robusto, and this year the robusto will be getting a glass tube option that will come in eight-count mahogany chests. When it was first released back in 2012, Mike Tarnowicz of Battleground Cigar said that the new line is the result of an extensive collaboration with several Freemasons from Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Brothers Michael Nemeth and Andrew Tarnowicz collaborated to create a complex cigar that is dominated by a rich and intoxicating flavor. Armistead was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War who amassed a significant amount of battle experience in the Mexican-American war as well. He ...
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