Macanudo Inspirado Tercio-Aged Shipping Today
A pair of smokes from General Cigar Co.’s Macanudo Inspirado brand are shipping to retailers today, and they feature specially-aged tobacco as part of the blend. Called Macanudo Inspirado Tercio-Aged, the brand is named after a process where bales of fermented tobacco leaves are wrapped in dried palm tree bark (called tercios) to age.
Rolled at General Cigar Dominicana in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the cigars consist of a four-country blend: A dark Mexican San Andrés wrapper atop an Indonesian binder with Colombian and Dominican filler. The Dominican Piloto Cubano fillers are the leaves that underwent the tercio aging process for a period of six months.
According to the company, the tercios “round out the tobacco in a way that is not attainable through other methods.”
Billed as being medium in body, Macanudo Inspirado Tercio-Aged is available in two sizes: Toro, measuring 6 inches by 54 ring gauge ($10.49); and Churchill, 7 by 49 ($10.99). The cigars come in 10-count boxes.
Production is limited to just 3,400 boxes (2,000 of the Toro and 1,400 of the Churchill) for the U.S. market.
The cigar bands and boxes include a QR code which directs consumers to links showing a video of the tercio aging process.
This would not be the first time that General has released cigars with tobacco aged in tercios. Cohiba Spectre, which is the company’s most expensive brand, is purported to contain tercio-aged leaves as well.
General Cigar Co. is a subsidiary of its European parent company Scandinavian Tobacco Group.
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