Plasencia Celebrates Year Of The Snake
Eight long, thin cigars and a culebra. It’s a veritable viper den of smokes and that’s how Plasencia Cigars is acknowledging Year of the Snake for the 2025 Chinese Lunar New Year. The idea is quite clever when you consider that the word culebra translates to “snake” in Spanish.
In cigar terms, a culebra typically is made from three thin cigars intertwined like serpents tied together by string or ribbon. Plasencia’s El Año de la Culebra Edición Limitada 2025 is a somewhat non-traditional take on the culebra, a 10-count box that contains eight traditionally shaped smokes and a culebra of two twisted together. Each of the cigars, twisted or not, measure 7 inches by 40 ring gauge. Plasencia refers to these as lanceros, but they are made without the pigtail cap found on typical lanceros. (Cigar Aficionado would classify the shape as a panetela.) All the tobacco is grown by the Plasencia family in Nicaragua and the cigars are made at the Plasencia factory in Estelí. Only 6,000 boxes are being produced with half of them allocated for the U.S. market.
The Lanceros have a suggested retail price of $49 each. If you opt for the Culebra instead, it will cost $98 for the two slender cigars. The entire box will retail for $490.
“El Año de la Culebra Edición Limitada 2025 is a tribute to the Chinese Lunar Year, featuring elegant Lanceros and the unique Culebra,” says Nestor Andrés Plasencia, fifth-generation family member and company owner. “Each cigar reflects the artistry and precision of our master rollers.”
The cigars are expected to start shipping later this month.
