Habanos Introduces New Vintage Program With Trinidad 55th Anniversary Humidor
Look, but don’t touch. That was the unspoken sentiment surrounding the flashy Trinidad 55th Anniversary humidor when it was unveiled during the Habanos Festival earlier this year. Loaded with 55 aged Trinidad Fundadores, the humidor was behind glass like a museum relic at the Festival trade fair. It’s not only a commemorative package, but marks the introduction of Habanos’ new Vintage program.
With its repeating Trinidad logo pattern, the humidor looks like a haute couture trunk from an atelier such as Louis Vuitton or Goyard, and this was the intention. It’s produced by French accessories manufacturer S.T. Dupont. Along with the Trinidad Cabildos and the re-issue of the Trinidad Robusto Extra, this limited-edition humidor is meant to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Cuba’s Trinidad brand.
Inside are 55 Trinidad Fundadores—but these are not ordinary Fundadores. Each long, thin cigar has been aged for at least 10 years, according to Habanos. The secondary band reads “Vintage 10” to indicate the age of the cigar.
According to Habanos these Fundadores “are under the unprecedented ‘Vintage 10,’ a new aging concept regulated by the Regulatory Council of the Habanos Protected Appellations of Origin, which certifies that these vitolas have been aged in perfect conditions for a period of 10 to 14 years.”
Habanos plans to roll out more cigars under the Vintage program in the future, and some of them will be even older. There will be four classifications:
- Vintage 5 (silver band): cigars aged five to nine years
- Vintage 10 (gold-bronze band): cigars aged 10 to 14 years
- Vintage 15 (gold band): cigars aged 15 to 19 years
- Gran Vintage 20 (gold glitter band): cigars aged for at least 20 years
The new Vintage designation is replacing the previous Añejados program, which launched in 2015 and indicated that the cigars were five to eight years old.
As for the humidor, there’s no telling when it will be released nor how much it will cost. If history tells us anything, it’s that we probably won’t see them on the market for a while, and when we do, they’re going to be expensive. Very expensive.
