Padilla Cigars honors Hemingway

Padilla Cigars honors Hemingway. It’s not the first time that a cigar brand is using the iconic writer Ernest Hemingway for a new line. Arturo Fuente has the Hemingway series, Tatuaje Cigars has the Old Man & the C. The Old Man & The C is inspired by Hemingway’s novel Old Man & the Sea. Now Padilla is entering the ring with the Padilla For Whom the bell tolls. It is the first time Padilla is using Ernest Hemingway as an inspiration. But Padilla Cigars isn’t new to using literature as a reference. Several of Padilla’s creations have links to his father, Cuban poet and writer Heberto Padilla.

The Padilla For Whom the Bell Tolls is a single vitola line. That is a 5⅝x46 Corona Gorda in a box pressing. For now, only 400 packs of five cigars are available. It is not clear if the cigars return after the initial production is sold. There are plans for other sizes for 2022, but Padilla did not reveal if those are regular production or small batches.

Blend & misprint.

 For the production of the cigars, Ernesto Padilla went with Tabacalera A.J. Fernandez Cigars in Esteli, Nicaragua. The cigar features Connecticut Broadleaf as a wrapper. The binder in Nicaraguan Corojo 99. The filler comes from Jalapa, Condega, and Esteli. These are three tobacco-growing regions in Nicaragua. All of the Nicaraguan tobacco comes from farms belonging to Abdel Fernandez. The wrapper comes from the Connecticut River Valley in the United States

The term ‘for who the bell tolls’ comes from the final lines of a poem by the Elizabethan poet John Donne. It where these lines that were the inspiration for Hemingway to write his famous novel. The ring on the cigar says “For Who the Bell Toll” and that is a printing error.