Padrón Begins To Release 60th Anniversary Perfecto
On September 8, Padrón Cigars will turn 60 years old. The Padrón 60th, a commemorative smoke that Cigar Aficionado wrote about in March, began shipping out today in small quantities.
The cigars are large perfectos, tapered at both the head and the foot, and this marks only the second time in six decades Padrón has made this kind of cigar. The smokes, which are made in Nicaragua with Nicaraguan tobaccos, measure 6 1/2 inches long by 56 ring and have a suggested retail price of $75 each. They come in boxes of 10.
The cigars are being made and released slowly. “We were not able to ship a lot of boxes,” Jorge Padrón told Cigar Aficionado. “It’s going to be very slow going out . . . we’re taking our time with it. The product is going to come in slowly and we’re going to get it out as it comes.”
Both natural and maduro versions were shipped.
This cigar is not the same shape as the Padrón Serie 1926 80 Years, which debuted in 2007. The 60 is round, compared to the box-pressed 80, and the 60 is a type of perfecto known as a Salomon, with a bulbous bottom. While it’s 56 ring at its fattest point (and Cigar Aficionado refers to ring gauges of cigars by naming their fattest point) it tapers down to 48 ring.
“We’ve never made it before in that shape,” says Padrón, who added that it was not an easy cigar to blend or to make.
Look for a review of the new cigar in an issue of Cigar Insider.
Padrón Cigars was created in Miami on September 8, 1964, by Jorge’s father, José Orlando Padrón. At the time, he had one cigar roller and was struggling to sell cigars for a quarter apiece. Over the years, he and his family built Padrón into a market leader, a cigar company that has won Cigar Aficionado’s Cigar of the Year contest four times, a record.
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