New H. Upmann Made With Single-Estate Tobacco
Single-estate blends are rare in the cigar industry, but next month, Altadis U.S.A. will be releasing one, a limited-edition H. Upmann made only with tobacco from a single farm in Nicaragua.
Called the H. Upmann by AJ Fernandez Heritage Finca Providencia, this Nicaraguan puro consists solely of tobacco from the La Providencia farm in Estelí, which is owned and cultivated by cigarmaker and leaf grower A.J. Fernandez. He makes the cigar in Nicaragua as well. It’s an offshoot of the regular-production H. Upmann Nicaragua AJ Fernandez Heritage line.
Like the regular-production line, this limited edition is a collaboration between Fernandez and Rafael Nodal, vice president of product capability for Tabacalera USA (Altadis U.S.A.’s parent company). According to Nodal, the tobaccos were culled from 2021 and 2022 harvests for a medium-to-full-bodied cigar.
This isn’t the first time that Altadis and Fernandez have released a farm-specific, estate blend. Fans of Nicaraguan H. Upmann cigars might recall the H. Upmann Nicaragua AJ Fernandez Finca La Lilia back in 2019. Those cigars were made with tobacco exclusively from Fernandez’s La Lilia farm.
The new cigar comes one size, a Toro Grande measuring 6 inches by 55 ring gauge. It’s packaged in 20-count boxes and is slated to retail for $20 apiece before taxes. Only 8,250 boxes are being produced.
Those attending next month’s PCA trade show in New Orleans will get a preview before the cigars ship to retailers on April 11.
For a blind tasting of the H. Upmann by AJ Fernandez Heritage Finca Providencia, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
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