E.P. Carrillo has announced that in early June, it will be releasing the second installment of its Perez-Carrillo Pledge of Allegiance, a limited edition that celebrates the birthday of the United States as well as the opportunities that the country has given to Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. and countless others.
According to an unverified report by Cigar Aficionado, the cigar returns with the same details as its debut, meaning a 6 x 54 box-pressed toro that uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, an Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut-seed binder, and fillers from Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The blend is notable for being the first time that Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr., the company’s founder and blender, used two American-grown tobaccos as part of the filler in one of his blends.
Production is limited to 1,776 individually numbered boxes of 10 cigars, with pricing set at $22 per cigar and $220 per box. The cigars are made at the company’s Casa Carrillo factory in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Earlier this month, the company teased the addition of a Pledge of Allegiance Salomon, which it said would be released in addition to the toro, but in a much more limited fashion. In an Instagram post, the company said that just 248 boxes were being produced, a number that would tie in to the number of years since the birth of the United States. However, nothing official has been announced about the cigar as of yet.
Beyond the patriotic tie-in, the cigar combines the names of two existing E.P. Carrillo lines of cigars: Pledge and Allegiance. Selim Hanono, the former chief operating officer of E.P. Carrillo, is credited with the idea for the name.
Perez-Carrillo emigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1959, flying to his new home by himself just before he turned 8-years-old.
A representative from E.P. Carrillo has not yet replied to an email seeking confirmation of the accuracy of the Cigar Aficionado report and requesting images of the cigar.