"Those who dare win," is emblazoned up-on each 100 cigar crates of the new Padilla Vintage Project. Both in Latin and English. The dare perchance is the MSRP: $4,750.00 per crate. Ernesto Padilla will release these pricey offerings unto the market come September. The perfect back-to-school gift for this stay-at-home dad, gentlepersons. No pressure.
The nom de tobacco oficialle is Padilla 1932 Millisime, derived from the French, meaning vintage. And the tobaccos inside are just that and then-some. Exactly how old? Cigar Aficionado asked, too. To which came the information to supply this retort: "Padilla doesn't want to say. He feels vintage years have been overused and abused in the cigar industry and putting a year on it would have minimal impact. He will say that the tobaccos inside the cigars, which are all Nicaraguan and all grown by the company Aganorsa, are special leaves that the Raices Cubanas factory in Honduras didn't want to use."
Mr. Padilla said, at this year's IPCPR: "Every factory I've worked with always has bales they don't want to use in blends. Tobacco they call their queen bales ... Is not only the oldest, but the most select"
But wait, there's more! It ain't only old. It ain't only select. It's age has come about in tercios, large bales wrapped-over in palm bark; an old method originating in Cuba. More, more? Soitenly! Even the top-leaf is aged in this manner, which is quite the rarity of rarities. So -- how many crates should I mark ya down for? Each is packed with 20 of each five formats: Toro, Double Toro, Robusto, Churchill, and a Figurado.
I can hardly wait till yas send me some crates...
