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JRE Tobacco Co. has added two cigars to the Aladino Vintage Selection, a brand that until recently only had one size. The new smokes, Toro and Elegante, began shipping earlier this month, joining the existing Rothschild.
Covered in a Cuban-seed Criollo wrapper from Honduras, the Aladino Vintage Selection was created last year by JRE to fill a gap in the Aladino portfolio, which already had other popular wrapper varietals such as Connecticut, Cameroon and Corojo. The rest of the Vintage Selection blend consists of Corojo leaf. All the tobacco was grown on the JRE family farms in the Jamastran Valley of Honduras. According to the company, the tobaccos have been aged three to five years.
Aladino Vintage Selection Gets Two New Vitolas
JRE Tobacco Co. has announced that it is expanding its Aladino Vintage Selection line with two new sizes.
The company is adding the Aladino Vintage Selection Elegante (7 x 38, $8) and Toro (6 x 50, $8.80). This follows up plans that were made last year when the Aladino Habano Vintage Selection Rothschild debuted and the company said more sizes in the works. The blend is a Honduran puro, though, unlike other JRE Tobacco Co.’s other items, the wrapper is habano and not the company’s signature corojo.
A spokesperson for the company didn’t respond to an email asking when the cigars were rolled. The company said the Rothschild cigars that were released last year were rolled in 2015-2016.