Anybody mind posting what it says extra in the Cigar Insider section. Not a paying member, could be illegal, if it is just maybe a brief overview.
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PADRÓN CIGARS UNVEILING
SEVERAL NEW OFFERINGS
BY ***** ******
In a rare move for the company, cigarmaker Padrón
Cigars Inc. will debut a variety of new releases in the
coming months, including a tribute cigar size for brand
patriarch José Orlando Padrón.
The first release, a bigger, redesigned Padrón sampler,
should begin shipping in a few weeks. Previous versions
contained four or five cigars of all one brand, but this
release contains a selection of three Padrón varieties and
has eight cigars. It consists of three Padrón 1964
Anniversary Series cigars (Imperial, Torpedo and
Exclusivo), three Padrón Serie 1926 cigars (No. 1, No. 2
and No. 6) as well as a Padrón 4000 and a Padrón 6000,
which is a torpedo size. It will retail for approximately
$100 and should be on sale around mid-November.
Company president Jorge Padrón said in an interview
that he and his family were considering signing the boxes
before they went on sale.
Now that the very rare Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series
“A” is no longer included in the sampler, Padrón said his
company would sell it on its own for the first time. The
cigar, which measures 8 1/4 inches long by 50 ring gauge,
was created for one of José Orlando Padrón’s first customers,
musician and television performer Mitch Miller,
and was originally dubbed the Mitch Miller Selection.
“Now that we’ve changed the sampler, we figured we
can sell some [“A’s”] in boxes of ten,” said Padrón. The
“A’s” will be a limited-production smoke, with a release of
800 to 1,000 boxes for the holidays. Padrón is unsure if
they’ll be released again next year. “Next Christmas,” he
said, “we might do something else.”
No price has been set for the “A” yet, but Padrón said
it was likely to sell for around $30 per cigar.
The “A” was first supposed to debut on its own around
the summer trade show, but the Padróns decided to hold
off. The determination to come out with the cigar after all
shows how the news tends to change at the small, familyrun
company, where decisions can be made quickly.
Brands can be launched and new cigars created after meetings
between the family team that runs Padrón.
One such decision involves the Padrón 80th Anniversary
cigar, which is coming out to honor the 80th birthday of
José Orlando Padrón, who founded the company in Miami
in 1964. The cigar—whose name might change—will be
debuted at the Saturday seminar of the Cigar Aficionado
Big Smoke Las Vegas next month at the Venetian hotel. The
current plan is for the 80th Anniversary cigars to go
on sale sometime in 2007—perhaps the first or second
quarter—but the family is still working on the cigars.
“We’re still defining some things,” said Jorge Padrón.