Privada Cigar Club is Expanding its Wholesale Distribution Operation
And moves six of its previously limited-edition lines into regular production The Limited Cigar Association is the wholesale division of Privada Cigar Club and offers retailers the opportunity to order limited edition cigars from the Privada monthly cigar subscription. Even with the new expansion, the number of accounts that are opened will be limited.
“Our focus has always been on providing the most interesting and highest quality cigars possible,” Thornton said in a press release. “For some time now, we have wanted to offer shops the consistent portfolio that they have been asking for. The challenge has been that we are consistently dealing with experimental tobaccos or tobaccos that are extremely limited in supply, and while this makes for great limited-edition material, it has been difficult to find blends that could be produced over and over again that live up to our standards of quality and uniqueness.”
But new accounts will not have access to the limited-edition cigars, only to a new set of previously limited releases turned regular production. These are the Good Life, 1491, Kings County, Mad Monkey, Blue Cheese, and Cigar1. All six of the cigars are being offered in a single vitola, which the company feels best expresses what each blend has to offer.
The Good Life is a 6 x 54 toro made by J.C. Newman and it was the first ever collaboration between Privada and the oldest Family-owned American cigar manufacturer. The Good Life uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, Brazilian Mata fina binder, and fillers from Nicaragua’s Jalapa, Condega and Estelí regions.
1491 is another toro, this time 6×50 and it’s a Dominican puro using corojo tobacco for the wrapper, binder and filler. It was blended by Chico Rivas as an opportunity to experience native Dominican tobacco in its purest form, and gets its name from the year before Columbus arrived in the Americas. “To smoke 1491 is to share an experience with peoples who lived centuries and millennia ago, the peoples who were the first ever to cultivate tobacco from the Earth and to whom we are indebted for the pleasure and joy we all share in smoking cigars today,” the company wrote.
Brooklyn, one of the 5 boroughs of New York is Kings County and the Kings Country cigar is created by the rapper AZ in collaboration with several former executives from Bad Boy Records as an homage to The Notorious B.I.G. It is a 6 x 60 Gordo made with an Ecuadorian Habano maduro wrapper, Dominican binder, and fillers from Nicaragua and Peru. Its band is notable for featuring the “Jesus Piece,” a recognizable piece of jewellery from the world of hip-hop.
Mad Monkey is another toro in the Privada portfolio, this time 6 x 48 made will all Nicaraguan tobacco. It has a Habano maduro wrapper and a double binder, which the company says gives it a spicy and bold profile. It was created by Tony Barrios of Stallone Cigars and produced by Tabacalera Perla in Nicaragua.
The next cigar is the Blue Cheese , a name with references to a $100 bill, or more specifically the blue security strip on the bill. It is also a Nicaraguan puro, highlighted by a Habano wrapper, and produced by AJ Fernandez. It is another toro, 6×52 this time.
The last one is Cigar1, another collaboration with J.C. Newman Cigar Co. This cigar only debuted in February 2022. It is the only cigar of the six to be released in individual sealed foil-lined pouches for freshness. There are two blends: Rose, with an Ecuadorian sun grown Habano rosado wrapper; and Cream, which uses a Brazilian Mata fina wrapper.
“These are the blends we have found that can continue to be reproduced but still offer customers a smoking experience as special as the experience they have come to expect from LCA releases,” Thornton said.
