Macanudo Inspirado Tercio-Aged Shipping Today
A pair of smokes from General Cigar Co.’s tercios) to age.
Rolled at General Cigar Dominicana in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the cigars consist of a four-country blend: A dark Mexican San Andrés wrapper atop an Indonesian binder with Colombian and Dominican filler. The Dominican Piloto Cubano fillers are the leaves that underwent the tercio aging process for a period of six months.
According to the company, the tercios “round out the tobacco in a way that is not attainable through other methods.”
Billed as being medium in body, Macanudo Inspirado Tercio-Aged is available in two sizes: Toro, measuring 6 inches by 54 ring gauge ($10.49); and Churchill, 7 by 49 ($10.99). The cigars come in 10-count boxes.
Production is limited to just 3,400 boxes (2,000 of the Toro and 1,400 of the Churchill) for the U.S. market.
The cigar bands and boxes include a QR code which directs consumers to links showing a video of the tercio aging process.
This would not be the first time that General has released cigars with tobacco aged in tercios. expensive brand, is purported to contain tercio-aged leaves as well.
General Cigar Co. is a subsidiary of its European parent company Scandinavian Tobacco Group.
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