Hungarian cigar company, Continental Tobacco, came out with two new cigar lines at this year’s InterTabac. Co-owner Peter Fuzi was especially excited by one of them.
“The Essenze Tradición line has three of my favorite traditional Cuban vitolas, Short Panatela, Lusitania and Diadema,” he says. “Actually, our Diadema is 235 millimeters long, so it’s super hard to make. Only a few rollers know how to make them. They all have Habano wrappers, but different binder and fillers than the original Habano lines.”
With this line, as the name tells you, they wanted to go back to classic Cuban cigar making.
“The boxes are as simple as we can make them, because we didn’t want to take the attention away from the tobacco itself.”
The other line is a bundle cigar called The Essenze Club.
“It comes with a super premium Connecticut or a Maduro wrapper, but we can offer them at a relatively consumer-friendly prize because we use sandwich filler. This is currently very attractive for most European distributors.”
