{"id":2858,"date":"2025-12-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:00:00","slug":"could-this-be-the-most-exclusive-cigar-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"Could This Be the Most Exclusive Cigar in the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the latest release from revered Cuban brand Trinidad breaking the \u2018$1,000 a stick\u2019
\nthreshold, Havana cigars are entering a new era.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Egregiously postponed Cuban cigar releases \u2014 one prays for mere months, though the delay typically spans a year or two \u2014 have become customary for Havanaphiles, those who puff and collect Havana cigars exclusively.<\/p>\n

Delays are now so common that it\u2019s fair to wonder if it\u2019s all mastermind marketing, designed to drive consumer fervor. Or is it, as many Dominican and Nicaraguan cigarmakers claim, due to a lack of skilled torcedores (cigar rollers) and a dearth of the dark, rich, oily tobaccos grown in western Cuba\u2019s Pinar del R\u00edo province? Perhaps both. No one knows for sure, and the Cubans remain taciturn.<\/p>\n

\"Habanos
Each cigar has been aged for at least 10 years \u00a9Habanos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yet this perpetual tardiness is why I\u2019m writing today about a cigar announced in 2021, first displayed publicly in 2024 \u2014 at the annual Festival del Habano<\/a> \u2014 but only recently released. A triple-banded Trinidad Fundadores 55th Anniversary puro (said to have been aged fully rolled for a decade) housed in an ST Dupont humidor, this is an unprecedented offering, and its price is a record $1,150 per cigar. <\/p>\n

Although cigars have traded hands privately and at auction for more than $1,000 a stick, no new release has ever done so before. It was, truthfully, only a matter of time, given the race to the four-figure threshold run by Habanos SA (the Cuban concern) and Swiss luxury tobacco company Davidoff. <\/p>\n

Trinidad is a marca<\/em> (brand) that became publicly available only at the end of the 20th century; it had long been offered as a diplomatic gift for foreign dignitaries visiting Cuba. It was created in 1969; teasingly auctioned to a select few carriagetrade collectors at the now-mythical Dinner of the Century, a 1994 charitable benefit held at Laurent, a Parisian temple of haute cuisine; and commercially launched three-and-a-half years later. <\/p>\n

\"Habanos
The humidor resembles a trunk from an atelier \u00a9Habanos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to this latest version of the venerable Trinidad Fundadores, the only conventional cigars that approached $1,000 were the Davidoff Oro Blanco Special Reserve 111 Years and the Cohiba Behike 56. In the end, though, there can be only one first past the four-figure post \u2014 enter la Trinidad 55. <\/p>\n

Is any cigar truly worth a thousand dollars? I\u2019ve personally paid that sum for a stick before \u2014 not happily, but while overcome with a bad case of auction fever. To answer the question, let\u2019s turn to the world of tequila<\/a> for a second. There\u2019s a saying in Mexico: \u201cUn tequila de m\u00e1s de $100 es solo para gringos.<\/em>\u201d Roughly, \u201cOnly gringos buy a bottle of tequila that costs over $100.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the greater-fool theory in action: something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay. With Trinidad, you\u2019re not just purchasing a cigar but also bragging rights. The perceptible difference between a $50 cigar and a $100 cigar is slim; the difference between a $100 and $1,000 cigar is more negligible still. Unlike a single-malt whisky, aged for decades, or a wristwatch with complications, your $1,000 cigar is still just well-aged, hand-rolled tobacco leaves, albeit in a fancy box. <\/p>\n

Over the past decade, Habanos has been able to position Havanas in the same luxury-goods stratum as Herm\u00e8s Birkin bags, Patek Philippe watches<\/a> and Louis XIII cognacs<\/a>. This is no small feat, and the bold Trinidad 55th Anniversary \u2018haute humidors\u2019 \u2014 each of the 1,000 numbered limited-edition ST Duponts comes filled with 55 of the well-aged cigars \u2014 are an audacious example.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the latest release from revered Cuban brand Trinidad breaking the \u2018$1,000 a stick\u2019 threshold, Havana cigars are entering a new era.\u00a0 Egregiously postponed Cuban cigar releases \u2014 one prays for mere months, though the delay typically spans a year or two \u2014 have become customary for Havanaphiles, those who puff and collect Havana cigars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facesjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}