How Diesel Cigars and Rabbit Hole Distillery Are Redefining Barrel-Aged Cigars with the Diesel Whiskey Row Founder’s Collection

Diesel Cigars and Rabbit Hole Distillery are collaborating for the third time, this time on a limited edition called the Diesel Whiskey Row Founder’s Collection. The 6×52 Toro uses a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and filler. The binder has been aged in charred American oak barrels that were used for the popular Rabbit Hole Founder’s Collection Boxgrail Rye Whiskey.

According to Justin Andrews of brand owner Scandinavian Tobacco Group, the purpose of the barrel-aging is to impart some of the barrel’s characteristics such as vanilla, caramel and black pepper.

The first collaboration between Diesel and Rabbit Hole took place in 2018. Like this current cigar, the binder leaves of those cigars were aged in Bourbon barrels. The following release in 2019 differed slightly, as the binders were aged in Sherry casks. In all three cases, the cigars were made at the factory of A.J. Fernandez.