After teasing the addition of a salomon vitola for its Perez-Carrillo Pledge of Allegiance line last month, today, E.P. Carrillo formally announced the cigar, confirming that the limited edition line is getting an even more limited edition size than the existing toro.
It is a 6 3/4 x 64 figurado that comes with a $35 price tag, and like the 6 x 54 toro vitola, comes in boxes of 10 cigars. While there are 1,776 boxes of the toro size—a reference to the year the United States was founded—the Pledge of Allegiance Salomon is limited to 248 boxes. That references the number of years since the founding of the country, and each one of those boxes has been signed by Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.
The blend remains the same as the toro: a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, an Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut-seed binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and the United States. The cigars are produced by one pair of rollers at Casa Carrillo in the Dominican Republic, which the company described as its “most senior pair” and are arlready shipping to stores.
Update — Shortly after this story was published, the company provided images and details which have been added to this report.