Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Collaborates With La Gloria Cubana
No matter how far you go, you will eventually find your way back home, even if just for a visit. In the 1980s and 1990s, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo owned and made the La Gloria Cubana brand before striking out to make cigars under his own name in 2009. Now the cigarmaker has returned for a sort of homecoming to collaborate on La Gloria’s newest regular-production line. Called Los Gloriosos (“The Glorious Ones”), it is scheduled to begin shipping to retailers next week, on April 14.
“We are honored to welcome Ernesto Perez-Carrillo back to the house he built,” says John Hakim, brand manager for La Gloria Cubana. “Los Gloriosos by La Gloria Cubana is everything fans have come to love about the brand and more. Los Gloriosos lives up to the standards of the past, proving that sometimes you can come home again.”
Produced at Perez-Carrillo’s Casa Carrillo factory in the Dominican Republic, the blend for Los Gloriosos consists of an Ecuador Habano wrapper and two Nicaraguan binder leaves (one from Jalapa, the other Estelí). The filler blend is a mix of Nicaraguan tobaccos from Jalapa and Condega, along with some Dominican Corojo ’99.
According to the company, Los Gloriosos is intended to be a full-bodied smoke.
Los Gloriosos is available in three sizes: Toro, measuring 6 inches by 50 ring gauge ($8.99); Gigante, 6 by 60 ($9.99); and Grandioso, 7 by 58 ($10.99). The line ships in boxes of 20.
For a rating of La Gloria Cubana Los Gloriosos, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
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