Casa Carrillo Encore Black Bulwarks Heads To Retailers
The newest size of Casa Carrillo’s Encore Black line is shipping now. Called Bulwarks, the dark perfecto is covered in a maduro wrapper like the rest of the Encore Black brand. It had a soft launch at a cigar event in Michigan and has now been officially released to the rest of the United States.
The Bulwarks is a fat perfecto, measuring 6 inches long by 58 ring gauge and is topped with a tightly knotted pigtail cap. Like its predecessor (a 5-by-52 parejo simply called Encore Black), the cigar is made with a dark, Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, a binder of San Andrés viso from Mexico and a selection of Nicaraguan fillers from Condega, Estelí and Jalapa. Each box contains 10 cigars, with a suggested retail price of $21 apiece ($210 per box). The blend is intended to be strong.
Bulwarks is produced at the Casa Carrillo factory in the Dominican Republic.
For a rating of the new Encore Black Bulwarks, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
