Alex Spencer Reserve Adds The Mansa Habano, Magnum Vitola
Alex Spencer Reserve is expanding The Mansa line of cigars by adding a new blend and new vitola.
The original The Mansa named after Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a Honduran binder and fillers from Honduras and Nicaragua. It has been offered in a 6 x 54 box-pressed vitola since the blend was revamped in 2019. Now the company is adding a second size, a 7 x 60 box-pressed magnum size, which features a tweaked blend thanks to tobaccos from Estelí and Jalapa, Nicaragua. In a press release, Alex Spencer says the tweak was done to “kick up the strength and flavors.”
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General Cigar Co. continues to expand its Macanudo Inspirado series with a new line that features a shade-grown wrapper from Brazil. Called Macanudo Inspirado Brazilian Shade, the cigar is shipping to retailers on May 4, three weeks from today.
The wrapper is grown from Connecticut seed, which is known for its mild qualities when cultivated in the Connecticut River Valley in the United States. This version, however, is grown under shade in the Bahia region of Brazil.
There’s a little more Brazilian leaf in the blend, as part of the filler, which also includes Nicaraguan and Dominican leaves. The binder is Mexican San Andrés tobacco. According to General, the Dominican filler is Piloto Cubano as well as a proprietary cultivar called Dominican Cubita, a Cuban-seed varietal from a one-acre plot in the Mao area of the Dominican Republic.
General Cigar Co. Plans Macanudo Inspirado Brazilian Shade
The Macanudo Inspirado line will be getting an extension with a rather unique wrapper: Connecticut shade tobacco grown in Brazil.
Next week, General Cigar Co. is expected to announce the Macanudo Inspirado Brazilian Shade, a new limited edition line that according to postings from retailers will use a Connecticut shade wrapper grown in Bahia, Brazil over a Mexican San Andrés binder and four filler tobaccos: Brazilian mata fina; cubita grown in Mao, Dominican Republic; piloto cubano from the Dominican Republic; and tobacco from Jalapa, Nicaragua.
Multiple retailers have listed sizes including a 7 x 48 Churchill and a 6 1/2 x 52 toro.