Cuba’s Last 2024 Edición Limitada Finally Hitting The Market
It was a buzzy night in Basel for cigar lovers yesterday evening. José María López Inchaurbe, vice president of development for Cuban monopoly Habanos S.A., stepped onstage to present the Ramon Allones Absolutos, the third and final Edición Limitada of 2024.
The gala was held in the catering hall of Basel’s Blinde Küh restaurant where well-dressed guests were among the first to see and sample the new cigar, a large format that measures 6 3/8 inches by 49 ring gauge. Called Nuevos in Cuban cigar factories, the Ramon Allones Absolutos comes in a unique, 20-count box designed especially for this release.
Now that the cigar has had its world premiere, it will be sold throughout Switzerland at the country’s La Casa del Habano and Habanos Specialist retail shops. There’s no official release date yet, but according to Intertabak A.G., Switzerland’s Habanos distributor, the cigar is set to retail for 45 Swiss francs each (about $50), or 900 Swiss francs per box, which works out to around $990.
The Edición Limitada program was launched in 2000 and features Cuban cigars produced in limited runs and rolled in unusual sizes. The wrappers are also considerably darker than those found on Cuba’s regular-production smokes. For the first 15 or 16 years of the program, Edición Limitadas were typically announced at the Habanos Festival in the early part of the year and then released by the fourth quarter. No more. Timetables have changed drastically and Habanos often struggles to get its cigars out on time. In 2022 and 2023, the program was on hiatus, as there were no Edición Limitadas for those years at all. News of the Ramon Allones Absolutos Edición Limitada 2024 first broke nearly a year ago during the last Habanos Festival.
The Ramon Allones Absolutos is the third and last Edición Limitada for 2024, following the Trinidad Cabildos and the H. Upmann Magnum Finite. It will be trickled into other global markets at unspecified times throughout the year.
For a rating on the new Ramon Allones Absolutos, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
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