La Flor Dominicana Making Changes To Original Blend
Back in 1994, Litto and Ines Gomez opened a cigar company called Los Libertadores, and their original blend was a mild, easygoing smoke that became known as Line, consisting of Dominican filler and binder with a light, Connecticut shade wrapper leaf. Los Libertadores was soon renamed La Flor Dominicana, and today La Flors are known for their power. Yet La Flor still makes the milder line, now known as Suave.
This weekend, at the PCA trade show in New Orleans, La Flor is unveiling a new version of Suave. “We sat down and asked ourselves, if we could go back to day one knowing everything we know now, what would this cigar have been?” says Litto Gomez. “What would it look like? And then we got to work.”
He reblended Suave, which the company describes as “a full-flavor, mild-to-medium-bodied blend.” It comes in two wrapper expressions, natural and maduro, each in five sizes. Gone is the Connecticut seed on the natural, replaced with Ecuador Corojo. The Maduro version has a Mexican San Andrés wrapper. While the blends are new, the original vitolas and names are unchanged.
The packaging is also new. The cigars come packed in boxes of 20.
Prices range from $8.40 to $12.8 per cigar. The new smokes will begin shipping in July.
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