While there wasn’t a hell of a lot of new products to see at TPE 2025, there were a feel highlights that I found interesting. I think we are going to have to wait a little bit longer for PCA 2025 for the real excitement. But that was to be expected. This list will be updated as some products need to be added later.
Aganorsa Leaf Flex Sampler
Aganorsa Leaf launched this products a few weeks ago as an event only exclusive, but since it was still so new I figured I would include it as part of the TPE coverage as many people probably haven’t seen it yet. Its is a ten count sampler box featuring ten of their primary blends, all in a round parejo toro. The Aganorsa Leaf Flex Sampler is priced at $140 and will only be available at store events. The list of the blends includes:
- La Validación Connecticut (6 x 52)
- La Validación Corojo (6 x 52)
- Signature Corojo (6 x 52)
- Signature Maduro (6 x 52)
- Supreme Leaf (6 x 54)
- Rare Leaf Corojo (6 x 54)
- Rare Leaf Maduro (6 x 54)
- Aniversario Connecticut (6 x 52)
- Aniversario Corojo (6 x 52)
- Aniversario Maduro (6 x 52)
Aganorsa Leaf Supreme Leaf 2025
In addition to the Aganorsa Leaf Flex Sampler above, Terence showed us the 2025 Supreme Leaf which will be shipping sometime in the next month. This is the tenth size of Supreme Leaf since it launched din March of 2020. This size is what Aganorsa is calling the Royal Perfecto, a 5 1/2 x 52 figurado. It features the same blend and will come in the standard ten count box with only 2,500 boxes being produced. It will have an MSRP of $14 per cigar.
Ferio Tego Metropolitan Petites
Ferio Tego is known to not always have new products by design because they mainly focus on building the reputation of the brand they have. But they do sprinkle in some of the Metropolitan and Timeless products that have been brought back to life. The only thing we had to see here was the new Metropolitan Petites, a trio of small, handmade cigars that deliver the familiar experience of the Metropolitan Selection in a new, compact size. Available in the Metropolitan Connecticut, Maduro, and Host blends, these 4 x 34 come in packs of five for $24.99. They will begin shipping in a few weeks.
Vie Deluxe
Vie Deluxe made their trade show debut and I found them to be interesting. They originally launched last September with just one cigar – an 11″ x 40 lancero extra that comes in a carbon fiber tubo. They come inside a larger round cylinder like box, also made of carbon fiber in a count of ten total. When I asked about the MSRP, company president Eliot Hamerman said that it varies, and that it is currently offered anywhere from $150 – $400 per cigar, with the higher price point more so being offered in other countries such as Dubai.
For TPE, the company added a new ashtray that matches the carbon fiber tubos but also provides a clean aesthetic and wind proaction from blowing ash. It has cigar rests on the top with a grate across the rest of the top to trap the ash inside, which is easily removable for cleaning. You can tell that while this ashtray can work for any cigar, it was designed with the lancero extra in mind, as it is quite large in diameter. It is twelve and a half inches wide and five inches high. The base of the ashtray is made of leather for a soft touch on table tops. The ash tray has an MSRP of $1,000 and Eliot Hamerman told Smokin Tabacco that he had more cigars going on sale this year.
Aging Room La Bohéme
At the Altadis U.S.A. booth, the only new product we saw was the reinvigorated La Bohéme brand. Originally debuting back in 2014, La Bohéme features a new blend and a new blue packaging howler all of the original vitola formats res till offered. It began shipping last week right before TPE started.
- Wrapper: Connecticut Hybrid Broadleaf and Habano
- Binder: Nicaragua
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Sizes: Mimi (3 1/2 x 46), Pittore (5 1/8 x 52), Poeta (5 3/4 x 54), Musico (6 1/4 x 60)
- MSRP: $17.90 – $24.90
- Production: Regular
E.P. Carrillo Perez Carrillo Endure
The latest in the critically acclaimed Perez-Carrillo collection is the new Endure. It comes packaged and banded with a bright orange design, something that reminds me of Halloween. It features authentic African Cameroon wrapper from the Meerapfel family. Endure is a regular production and while only two sizes are available right now (toro and robusto), we were told a third size is on the way later.
- Wrapper: Cameroon
- Binder: Nicaragua
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Size: Robusto (5 x 52) & Toro (6 x 52)
- MSRP: $18 – $20
- Production: Regular
La Aurora 100 Años
The return of perhaps one of La Aurora’s best and well known cigars is the 100 Años, celebrating the company’s 100th Anniversary. Originally released in 2004, the line has been in and out but now it is available in four sizes full time. It was also La Aurora’s first Dominican puro cigar. While the bands haven’t changed, the boxes are now a beautiful lacquered wood grain that really makes a statement and set it apart from many of the other releases at the show. 100 Años is expected to begin shipping this month.
- Wrapper: Dominican Republic
- Binder: Dominican Republic
- Filler: Dominican Republic
- Sizes: Robusto (5 x 50), Robusto Especial (5 x 50), Belicoso (6 1/4 x 52), and Churchill (7 x 47)
- MSRP: $17 – $20.50
- Production: Regular
La Aurora Small Batch 006
La Aurora announced this week the release of La Aurora Small Batch Lot 006, a limited-edition cigar created by Master Blender Manuel. La Aurora Small Batch is a collection of limited quantity cigars created by Master Blender, Manuel Inoa, who reached back into the aging room pulling out his favorite creations.
- Wrapper: Nicaragua with Mexican San Andrés “Rope Binding”
- Binder: Nicaragua
- Filler: Dominican Republic, Nicaragua & Pennsylvania
- Size: (4 1/2 x 38/60)
- MSRP: $16.50 (Box of 10, $165)
- Production: 137 boxes of ten
Lagarto Cigars Colección Edición Limitada
Lagarto Cigars is a new brand from ZR Cigars. At TPE, we saw the debut of the brand with what the company calls Colección Edición Limitada, a sixteen cigar sampler that offers four the the collections blends in four different sizes. In regards to the blend, only the wrappers have been disclosed. Colección Edición Limitada began shipping in January.
- Wrapper: Ecuador Connecticut, Ecuador Cameroon, Ecuador Habano, and Mexican San Andréas
- Binder: Undisclosed
- Filler: Undisclosed
- MSRP: $280
- Production: 1,000 Boxes per Year – Limited
Micallef Black Firecracker
Part of the annual firecracker special release from United Cigar is partnering with manufacturers to creat firecrackers based on existing blends. For 2025, two manufacturers have been announced so far. One is J.C. Newman with the El Baton blend which was not at TPE. The other was at TPE and it is the Micallef Black. These will begin shipping in June right before the Fourth of July holiday in which they usually celebrate.
- Wrapper: Mexican San Andrés
- Binder: Ecuador
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Size: (3 1/2 x 50)
- MSRP: $9 (Box of 20, $180)
- Production: Undisclosed
Somm BDX Blanc Packaging
The first place I stopped on the floor was at Somm where I found Matt Booth investigating a 3D printer set up at the booth with owner Vlad Stojanov. Vlad told us that they would be rolling out new 3D printed boxes starting with the BDX Blanc line but with the rest to follow later in the year. The boxes are also versatile for different sizes, there is a spacer in the box than can be moved to create a display for two toro bundles, two robust bundles or a bundle of each. Somm debuted at PCA last year in 2024.
