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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2003
By Michael S. Marsh
The Duke of York, above, and The Tudor.
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As the trend for bigger and thicker cigars continues among cigar smokers, General Cigar Holdings Inc. has augmented its Macanudo Café line by creating two large ring-gauged sizes. The Tudor and the Duke of York, each with 50-plus ring gauges, round out Macanudo's portfolio while meeting consumer demands.
The sizes first appeared in November 2002, as part of the Macanudo Gold line, a limited release that has a golden-hued wrapper. Cafés, the "traditional" Macanudo, have brown wrappers. Both are made with the same seed wrapper, Connecticut-shade. By January, they were sold out, and due to their success, Gardner says Macanudo decided to expedite the release of the sizes in the Café line, which was originally set for the Fall of 2003. The cigars went on sale in February.
"These sizes in the Macanudo Gold line were extremely successful," said Macanudo's director of marketing, Cooper Gardner. "A lot more than was expected. Once they sold out, we began getting a lot people asking for the sizes in the Café line and so it just made sense."
Like their predecessors in the Gold line, the Tudor and the Duke of York sizes were developed by Angel Daniel Nüñez, the executive vice president of manufacturing and tobacco for General. They are made in the Dominican Republic and feature a blend of Dominican and Mexican filler, Mexican binder under Connecticut-shade wrappers. The Tudor, which measures 6 inches by 52 ring gauge, retails for $5.60 per stick, while the Duke of York, measuring 5 1/4 inches with a 54 ring gauge, sells for $5.90. Also in Cigar News:
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