4月3日，通用雪茄公司旗下的麥克紐杜品牌開始向零售商運(yùn)送一款新品雪茄,，這款名為“tercios”的雪茄采用了一些經(jīng)過特殊發(fā)酵的煙葉,，這是一種將煙葉成捆放在干燥的棕櫚樹皮里發(fā)酵的工藝，棕櫚樹皮稱為“tercios”（方陣）,。
這款雪茄使用了四國煙葉，茄衣是墨西哥圣安德烈斯煙葉,，茄套是印尼煙葉,，茄芯是多米尼加、哥倫比亞的混合煙葉,。多米尼加煙葉是古巴皮洛托種子煙葉,，這款煙葉在棕櫚樹皮里發(fā)酵了六個月。雪茄是在多米尼加共和國的圣地亞哥生產(chǎn)的,。
根據(jù)通用雪茄公司的說法,，在棕櫚樹皮里發(fā)酵煙葉的方式可以讓煙草的風(fēng)味更加飽滿。這款tercios的口味是中等強(qiáng)度,。有兩個尺寸,。公牛，54環(huán)徑,，6英寸,，在美國的零售價是10.49美元。丘吉爾,，49環(huán)徑,，7英寸，零售價10.99美元,。兩個尺寸都是每盒10支包裝,。
美國市場將分配2000盒公牛和1400盒丘吉爾。雪茄煙標(biāo)和外包裝盒上印有一個二維碼,，消費(fèi)者可以掃描后觀察煙葉發(fā)酵過程的視頻,。
通用雪茄公司不是第一次采用在棕櫚樹皮里發(fā)酵的煙葉來生產(chǎn)雪茄，之前生產(chǎn)的高希霸幽靈也含有在棕櫚樹皮里發(fā)酵的煙葉,。
A pair of smokes from General Cigar Co.’s Macanudo Inspirado brand are shipping to retailers today, and they feature specially-aged tobacco as part of the blend. Called Macanudo Inspirado Tercio-Aged, the brand is named after a process where bales of fermented tobacco leaves are wrapped in dried palm tree bark (called tercios) to age.
Rolled at General Cigar Dominicana in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the cigars consist of a four-country blend: A dark Mexican San Andrés wrapper atop an Indonesian binder with Colombian and Dominican filler. The Dominican Piloto Cubano fillers are the leaves that underwent the tercio aging process for a period of six months.
According to the company, the tercios “round out the tobacco in a way that is not attainable through other methods.”
Billed as being medium in body, Macanudo Inspirado Tercio-Aged is available in two sizes: Toro, measuring 6 inches by 54 ring gauge ($10.49); and Churchill, 7 by 49 ($10.99). The cigars come in 10-count boxes.
Production is limited to just 3,400 boxes (2,000 of the Toro and 1,400 of the Churchill) for the U.S. market.
The cigar bands and boxes include a QR code which directs consumers to links showing a video of the tercio aging process.
This would not be the first time that General has released cigars with tobacco aged in tercios. Cohiba Spectre, which is the company’s most expensive brand, is purported to contain tercio-aged leaves as well.
General Cigar Co. is a subsidiary of its European parent company Scandinavian Tobacco Group.