Unless the USofA becomes walled-in prior to next week, expect a new immigrant to our land of the free, the home of the brave... the Villiger La Meridiana. The 20-something-year-old Nicaraguan Puro European brand is rolled at the Fabrica de Joya de Nicaragua S.A. factory in FAB-u-LOUS, well, Nicaragua.
As with its Flor de Ynclan and La Vencedora portfolio brethren, it bears a nom de tobacco harkening back to the old Havana Tobacco Company. Pedro Murias, cigar maker, particularly. That all was ended when Castro nationalized the cigar industry of Cuba.
The La Meridiana will be available in five formats (fivemats?) -- Corona, Robusto, Torpedo (652), Churchill, and a box-pressed Toro.
