A new all-American Double Robusto

A new all-American Double Robusto. J.C. Newman is adding a 5 ½ x56 Double Robusto to its The American line. The American is a tribute to the American cigar-making tradition. J.C. Newman does that by rolling world-class cigars in America using the finest heirloom American cigar tobaccos. The introduction of the line took place in 2019.

At the time of the introduction, the line had four sizes. Those were a 7×47 Churchill, 6⅛x52 Torpedo, 6×54 Toro, and a 4½x50 Robusto. There is a second version of the 7×47 Churchill in a glass tube as well. That makes the new Double Robusto the sixth offering of the cigar. Due to the very limited supply, the J.C. Newman The American is only for sale at select retailers. These include Corona Cigars, the retail shops from Jeff Borysiewicz who supplies the Florida Sun Grown wrapper tobacco, and the shop at J.C. Newman’s El Reloj Cigar Factory in Tampa.

The tobacco

The wrapper comes from Florida, where Jeff Borysiewicz, owner of Corona Cigar Company grows tobacco in Clermont. This is used as a wrapper for The American. Two other companies that use the same wrapper are Drew Estate and Davidoff. The binder comes from the Foster Farm in the Connecticut River Valley where John Foster is the seventh generation tobacco farmer. His Connecticut broadleaf was chosen as a binder. Foster also grows Connecticut Havana Seed tobacco, which J.C. Newman uses for the Diamond Crown Black Diamond. But some of the tobacco is used as a filler for The American. The other component of the filler is Pennsylvania Amish from the Lancaster area in Pennsylvania. There is some extra Pennsylvania ligero in the filler of the Double Robusto, making it a bit stronger than the other vitolas.

For the molds of the cigars, J.C. Newman approached HSA Cigar Molds, a company based in Dade County, Florida. The relationship between HSA Cigar Molds and J.C. Newman isn’t new, the companies have a history of over 50 years. Millennium Wood Box from Miami makes the cigar boxes, all from American grown basswood. The wood is grown sustainably to limit the effects on the environment. All the nails, screws, and hinges on the boxes are also American-made.

And where J.C. Newman uses printing companies outside the United States for many of their cigars, they chose the Florida-based Action Label to make the labels for this project. Action Label uses sustainably sourced papers produced in America for the labels of The American. And finally, after rolling and aging, the cigars are protected by cellophane. This cellophane is produced by Technical Packaging in Pennsylvania.