最近，翹曲雪茄公司的雪茄代工廠應(yīng)該忙的不可開交,，翹曲公司最新一個品牌“鱷魚島”產(chǎn)品正在圣地亞哥的島嶼雪茄廠里生產(chǎn),，這款雪茄將在拉斯維加斯的PCA貿(mào)易展亮相，計劃今年夏季向零售商發(fā)貨,。
鱷魚島是古巴島的昵稱,，有人到古巴島的地圖像一條鱷魚。這是這個雪茄品牌和古巴唯一有交集的地方,，但煙葉配方里并沒有古巴煙草,。凱爾·蓋利斯（Kyle Gellis）使用了三個國家的煙葉，茄衣是厄瓜多爾哈瓦那煙葉,，兩片茄套煙葉分別用了厄瓜多爾哈瓦那2000煙葉和巴西阿拉皮拉卡（Arapiraca）煙葉,，茄芯是尼加拉瓜煙葉。
根據(jù)蓋利斯的介紹,，這款雪茄的茄衣煙葉在種植的時候采用了“摘花法”（desflorado）,，也就是煙草植株的花朵在萌發(fā)時會被摘除，這種方法也叫去頂法（topping）,，這樣可以讓植株的養(yǎng)分重新輸送回煙葉,，使得煙葉的口味力度更強。
這款鱷魚島有兩個尺寸,，一款是大皇冠,，46環(huán)徑，5.625英寸,，售價是每支13美元,。一款是公牛,，52環(huán)徑，6英寸,，每支14美元,。每盒都是15支的包裝。
Warped Cigars is certainly keeping Tabacalera La Isla in the Dominican Republic busy. Its newest brand, Isla del Cocodrilo, (which translates to “island of the crocodile”) is being produced at the small factory in Santiago, and it’s scheduled for a summer release.
The term Isla del Cocodrilo is a nickname for the island of Cuba, which some say is shaped like a crocodile, but that’s where any analogs to Cuba stop, as there is no Cuban tobacco in the cigar. The reference is purely a sentimental homage. Rather than sneak any Cuban tobacco into the cigar, Kyle Gellis, founder of Warped, has created a three-country blend consisting of Nicaraguan filler, two binders—one Ecuador Habano 2000 and the other Brazilian Arapiraca—and an Ecuador Habano wrapper.
According to Gellis, the wrapper was culled in the desflorado method, meaning that the flower of the tobacco plant was removed in the field. The method is also called “topping” and this results in the plant redirecting its energy back to the leaf rather than to the creation of a flower, resulting in stronger tobacco.
Isla del Cocodrilo comes in two sizes: Corona Gorda at 5 5/8 inches by 46 ring gauge, and a 6-by-52 Toro. They will retail for $13 and $14, respectively. Both are packaged in boxes of 15.
While they’re not shipping until at least three months, the cigars will be on display at this weekend’s PCA trade show in Las Vegas.
