Camacho
One of the newer things at the Davidoff booth was the recently released Camacho Ecuador. The cigar with the blue band and box actually came out just before the show, but it was prominently featured at the booth. The new Camacho uses a Habano seed grown in Ecuador for its wrapper with a Brazilian Mata Fina binder and high priming Honduran tobaccos along with Pelo de Oro ligero from the Dominican Republic for fillers. It comes in 5 sizes from a 5” x 50 Robusto to a 6” 60 Gordo and prices start just under $7.
Davidoff also continued the Camacho Liberty Series for 2014, which also uses the Habano Ecuadoran wrapper but it is from 2005. This cigar contains a 2006 Corojo binder and fillers from both the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. It is only one size, 11/18 and comes in 20 count boxes with a total production of only 2,000 boxes. They retail for $17 each.
Another addition to the Camacho line is the Double Shock. The logo for this cigar is the rare double-tailed scorpion. Davidoff says this barber pole type of cigar was made in the Danli factory with tobaccos from 5 different countries. The wrappers are, again, the Ecuadoran Habano but paired with a dark San Andres leaf creating the barber pole effect. The binder is Criollo and the fillers are from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Pennsylvania. The double shock is limited to 1,000 boxes of each size. They come in three sizes, Toro, Figurado and Gordo and the retail is from $11.50 to $13. They should hit store shelves in October.
Finally, part of the Camacho “Board of the Bold” is Hollywood writer, producer and director Rob Weiss. He is best known for the HBO series Entourage. Weiss now has partnered with Camacho and Davidoff to form the B.G. Meyer Company and has released a couple of cigars. The first line is the Standard Issue, which uses Nicaraguan tobaccos made at AgroIndustrias Laepe S.A. in Danli—the old Camacho and now Davidoff factory. It comes in five sizes, again from the 5” x 50 Robusto to a 6” x 60 Gordo. Prices are from $8-10. The second cigar is called Slackers which is a smaller stick being sold in 4 packs. Whereas the Standard Issue is medium to full, Slackers is more on the mild side with an Ecuadoran Connecticut wrapper, Dominican binder and fillers. Cost will be about $4 each.
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