Davidoff Year Of The Horse Cigars And Humidor Out This Week
Saddle up and head over to your local cigar shop. Davidoff of Geneva is celebrating the 2026 Lunar New Year a bit early as the company’s Chinese zodiac-themed releases for 2026 are shipping this week. It includes not only cigars, but a humidor as well.
While last year’s Year of the Snake was made in a serpentine lonsdale format, the Year of the Horse is a bigger size which the company refers to as Toro Especial. It measures 6 1/2 inches by 55 ring gauge—a first for Davidoff—and comes in 10-count boxes with a suggested retail price of $65 per cigar. A total of 5,970 boxes have been allocated for the U.S. market.
For blending, Davidoff took inspiration from the diversity of horse breeds. The result was a blend composed entirely of “proprietary hybrid seeds,” utilizing an Ecuadoran wrapper and binder atop Dominican fillers. The leaves are also reportedly quite aged: Davidoff says the leaves tally a combined total of 43 years. In terms of strength, the cigar is intended to be a medium-bodied smoke.
For those who find the Toro Especial’s 55 ring gauge a bit too imposing, the blend also comes in a torpedo shape. The Year of the Horse Flagship Exclusive Torpedo measures 6 by 52 and retails for $89 each. Only 600 boxes of 24 cigars will be released worldwide at flagship Davidoff retail locations.
If the Toro Especial is too long, the Torpedo too thin and neither one thick enough, there’s even a third size: Gran Toro. This measures 6 by 56 and is only found in the Year of the Horse Masterpiece Humidor set. Inside are 88 Gran Toros.
The humidor features a rearing horse motif on the top lid. It was initially painted by Chinese artist Chengyu Wang before French artist Agnès Paul-Depasse brought the horse to life through a combination of hand-assembled straw marquetry for the horse. Straw marquetry involves each strand of straw to be hand selected and inspected in order to produce a high metallic sheen when assembled. Detail work for the horse’s hooves, tail and mane incorporated a total of five meters (almost 16 1/2 feet) of silk.
Limited to just 20 humidors worldwide, the Masterpiece Humidor retails for $49,000. Included with the set is a certificate of authentication.
The 2026 Year of the Horse cigars are produced in the Dominican Republic at the Cigars Davidoff factory.
