過去這段時間蒂姆·奧茲格納（Tim Ozgener）一直在忙于宣傳他的奧茲格納家族雪茄公司和產(chǎn)品,，2022年推出產(chǎn)品后,，他經(jīng)常聽到的一個消費者反饋就是需要一款口味更溫和的雪茄。他公司旗下的博斯普魯斯海峽系列（Bosphorus）口味是中等到濃郁,，去年推出的Aramas口味甚至更加強烈,?？紤]到市場的反饋，他計劃推出一個新的系列，口味相對溫和,，可以滿足那些想要輕柔口味的雪茄愛好者,。
這個新系列名為Firsat，土耳其語的意思是“機會”,，奧茲格納說這是紀念家族的根源,。
雪茄的茄衣是厄瓜多爾種植的康涅狄格種子煙葉，位于煙草植株的上層,，這款茄衣讓雪茄看起來有一種青銅色,。茄套是厄瓜多爾種植的哈瓦那種子煙葉，茄芯是尼加拉瓜的奧梅特佩（Ometepe）火山島種植的煙葉,，這種煙葉帶有甜味,。
這個新系列的雪茄是在多米尼加共和國的圣地亞哥生產(chǎn)的，委托埃內(nèi)斯托·佩雷斯·卡里略（Ernesto Perez-Carrillo）的卡里略之家（ Casa Carrillo）雪茄廠生產(chǎn)的,，這家雪茄廠以前叫聯(lián)盟雪茄廠（Tabacalera La Alianza）,。
雪茄是輕微壓制，不像博斯普魯斯海峽系列的盒壓造型,，而Aramas是圓柱形,。
Firsat系列有四個尺寸。以雪茄環(huán)徑來命名,，F(xiàn)52,，52環(huán)徑，5英寸,。F55,，55環(huán)徑，5.5英寸,。F60,，60華景，6英寸,。F54,，54環(huán)徑，7英寸,，雙皇冠型號,。這個雙皇冠型號是其他兩個系列沒有的型號。奧茲格納說,，這個型號讓他想到以前家族還擁有CAO雪茄品牌的時候,，CAO的金色系列有一款雙皇冠，54環(huán)徑,，7英寸,，味道好極了,。
Firsat系列的售價從每支12美元到14美元不等，將在美國PCA貿(mào)易展亮相,，奧茲格納預(yù)計這個新系列的雪茄4月份可以發(fā)貨,。
Tim Ozgener has been hitting the road to meet with cigar smokers, spreading the word about his Ozgener Family Cigars, which hit the market in 2022. One of the questions he’s been hearing quite a bit is a request for a milder cigar. His Bosphorus line is rather robust, medium to medium-full in body. His Aramas release is perhaps a touch stronger. Taking the consumer feedback to heart, he’s now ready to come out with a new line, aimed at cigar lovers looking for something lighter.
“A lot of people are asking for a mild to medium-bodied cigar,” Ozgener says. “We want to target that category.”
That new smoke is called Firsat, which means “opportunity” in Turkish, a nod to Ozgener’s roots. “Its base filler is Ometepe,” says Ozgener, referring to the sweet leaf grown on the volcanic island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. The entire filler blend is Nicaraguan, the binder is Ecuador Habana, and the wrapper leaf is a Connecticut seed grown in Ecuador. It’s a high-priming leaf, Ozgener says, giving the cigar a bronze shade.
The cigars are rolled at Ernesto Perez-Carrillo’s Casa Carrillo (formerly Tabacalera La Alianza) in Santiago, Dominican Republic, and they have a shape that’s a bit different from Ozgener’s other smokes. “It’s a soft press,” he says, unlike Bosphorus, which is box pressed, and Aramas, which is round. “It’s more of a subtle press,” he says.
Firsat has a size that you won’t find in Ozgener’s other lines, a double corona. He wanted it because it reminds him of a milder blend from when he and his family owned the CAO brand. “Back when we had CAO Gold,” he says, “we found the double corona size, 7 by 54, tasted really good.”
Firsat will come in four sizes, all of them named for the thickness of the cigar. There is F52, which is 5 inches long by 52 ring gauge; F55, 5 1/2 by 55; F60, 6 by 60 and the double corona, named F54, which is 7 inches long.
Prices for Firsat will be around $12 to $14 per smoke. They will be on display at the PCA trade show and Ozgener hopes to have them in cigar shops by April.
