{"id":39903,"date":"2021-04-20T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=39903"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:40:20","slug":"a-s-reserve-launches-3-new-lines-under-the-mansa-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/a-s-reserve-launches-3-new-lines-under-the-mansa-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"A.S. Reserve Launches 3 New Lines Under The Mansa Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mansa cigar, created by Alex Spencer and crafted at Tabacalera Kafie in Honduras, and which features Mansa Musa, the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century African Emperor on its cigar bands and box artwork, celebrates the people of Africa and the African diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an African American I take great pride in the history and wealth of our people and culture,\u201d said Spencer. \u201cI want to bring forth my love premium cigars and shed some light on the history Africans played on the world of tobacco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since releasing the first line of The Mansa, Spencer has been working closely with Tabacalera Kafie in Honduras to develop three additional lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original Mansa cigar is a box pressed Toro 6&#215;54 which features a Mexican San Andres Wrapper, and Honduran and Nicaraguan binder and fillers,\u201d said Spencer. \u201cWe added a new vitola, a Magnum 7&#215;60 box-pressed cigar. The blend remains the same, although we did kick up the strength and flavors with some very rare and highly sought-after tobaccos from Jalapa and Esteli in Nicaragua.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-39906 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/The-Mansa-Cigar-Portfolio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/The-Mansa-Cigar-Portfolio.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/The-Mansa-Cigar-Portfolio-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new Nicaraguan Habano Natural blend is available in two sizes and offered in 10 count boxes.<\/p>\n<p>6&#215;54 Toro Box Pressed \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MSRP USD$12.50<\/p>\n<p>7&#215;60 Magnum Box Pressed \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MSRP USD$15.00<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect full body cigars, with full flavors in both blends, and a clean sharp finish. The cigars have started shipping to retailers across the United States through distributors Kafie Trading Company, LLC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spencer notes that he is also currently working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boutiquesmoke.com\/\">www.boutiquesmoke.com<\/a> to help facilitate sales and distribution.\u00a0\u201cAs a boutique cigar brand, production is set at 1600 boxes per year in total and the MSRP is fixed so as to protect our brick and mortar partners, as are all other products on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boutiquesmoke.com\/\">www.boutiquesmoke.com<\/a>,\u201d said Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>If Mansa Musa were alive today, I\u2019m certain he would be very proud of this entire project and honored that we shed some light on the beautiful history of Africa and its people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mansa cigar, created by Alex Spencer and crafted at Tabacalera Kafie in Honduras, and which features Mansa Musa, the 14th century African Emperor on its cigar bands and box artwork, celebrates the people of Africa and the African diaspora. \u201cAs an African American I take great pride in the history and wealth of our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/a-s-reserve-launches-3-new-lines-under-the-mansa-brand\/\" title=\"Read more\" >&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":39904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2812,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}