Plasencia Box Presses Its Alma Del Campo Guajiro
If you like smoking the Plasencia parejo shape, you’d better buy up as many as you can. Plasencia Cigars has changed it to a box-pressed format and is discontinuing the original size. First shipments of the box-pressed Guajiro should be coming to retailers now.
While the dimensions remain the same—5 1/2 inches long by 54 ring gauge—the cigar is now being pressed from this point forward. Plasencia says the change is due to customer demand, and this isn’t the first time that Plasencia Cigars has made this type of change. In 2020, it did the same thing to its Alma del Campo Travesia size.
Plasencia’s Alma del Campo brand Alma del Fuego lines.
The box-pressed Alma del Campo Guajiro comes in 10-count boxes and has a suggested retail price of $18.25 each. Like the rest of the line, it’s made at Plasencia Cigars S.A. in Nicaragua.
Once inventory of the round Guajiro runs out, the Alma del Campo line will consist of five sizes. Plasencia doesn’t have any current plans to box-press any more sizes, but the company isn’t ruling out the possibility in the future.
Plasencia is run by the father-son team of Nestor Plasencia and Nestor Andrés Plasencia. For an interview with Nestor Andrés, see the July/August issue of Cigar Aficionado, which is heading to subscribers now, and goes on newsstands July 16.
