Warped Owner Kyle Gellis Pays Tribute to Father With Cigar
Warped owner Kyle Gellis is paying tribute to his father, and the upcoming 70th birthday of his father, with the Don Reynaldo 70th. For this cigar, Gellis went back to the factory where it all started for him, El Titan de Bronze in Miami. Don Reynaldo is an existing line, but the 70th is a limited edition Belicoso. The cigar measures 6½x48 and only 10.000 cigars have been made.
“This special, limited edition is to celebrate my father’s 70th birthday on December 17th,” Gellis says. “Without my father, I wouldn’t have been informed from such a young age on premium cigars. It was my dad who had me sit with him while he smoked in his office, and told me about construction, sizes, flavour profiles and everything that encompassed the world of premium cigars.”
The cigar is made with a Dominican Corojo wrapper, a binder from Nicaragua and filler from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Gellis calls this brand the most Cubanesque cigar he makes, in both construction and blend. Typical of Cuban cigars, Don Reynaldo is rolled in the entubado style and topped with a triple-seam cap. Its flavour profile is intended to be a cross between what Gellis calls the creaminess of Hoyo de Monterrey and the spice of Partagás.
