Davidoff re-introducing a Maduro cigar

[JohnS]

New Davidoff Maduro Now Available

April 4, 2024 - Charlie Minato News

The Davidoff Maduro is back.

Today, the new Davidoff Maduro is back on sales. Compared to the original Davidoff Maduro—which was introduced in 2008 and discontinued in 2016—it’s got a new look and a new blend.

As for the latter, the cigar uses an Ecuadorian maduro wrapper over a Mexican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic. Davidoff says it “doubled the fermentation period of Maduro’s wrapper leaf, thus creating a natural temperature increase in the fermentation pile tailored to the leaf.” That extended the time period to 16 months in total. Furthermore, the wrapper is described as a higher-priming “Corte #7” leaf, meaning it is higher up on the plant and receives more sunlight.

The new Davidoff Maduro is offered in three sizes:

Davidoff Maduro 2024 Short Corona (4 x 43) — $43 (Box of 20, $860)

Davidoff Maduro 2024 Robusto (5 x 50) — $50 (Box of 20, $1,000)

Davidoff Maduro 2024 Toro (6 x 54) — $54 (Box of 20, $1,080)

Davidoff describes the release as “limited production.”

“Time makes all the difference in our new Maduro line. We refrain from adding any external heat sources and allow nature and time to perfect the leaves in our expertly maintained fermentation pile,” said Edward Simon, chief marketing officer at Oettinger Davidoff, in a press release last month. “This labour- and time-intensive process, accompanied by extensive testing and followed by a long ageing phase, has resulted in a wonderfully refined cigar with a flavour profile and body that will be highly sought-after in the market. I am sure that our new Maduro, in which we have invested so much dedication and knowledge, will fill our aficionados’ time beautifully.”

Source: https://halfwheel.com/new-davidoff-maduro-now-available/437348/

[MooseAMuffin]

Please tell me those $ amounts are Aussie dollars and not US.

[JohnS]

Haha...dollar amounts, as quoted, are US!

[Mr. DD]

Nope. I can think of many tasty nc (fw) maduros I could purchase for a fraction of the Davidoff prices.

[Ford2112]

That's insane. 

[B44]

Looks like they followed Habanos’ delusional sales model. 

[jazzboypro]

Probably another overpriced cigar !!

[Dr vonPuffenberg]

They were $65 at my local shop yesterday.

[Wookie]

HSA took their shot, hit a bullseye and everyone is laughing all the way to the bank. 

[MrBirdman]

Ugh, the price sucks (and is kinda confusing since it’s higher than most LEs, at least so far). That said, I’ll probably try one of the robustos. The small corona is ridiculous though - even Habanos wouldn’t charge $42 for a minuto. And I’d appreciate if Davidoff wouldn’t start giving them the idea to do so!

It’s possibly a bad marketing move too - that size is already tough to move in the US, and the absurd price makes the rest of the line appear more overpriced than it otherwise would. 

[alexander.espinoza]

As a longtime fan of the Kelner and Diaz, I’ve been a fan of Davidoff for many years, even after they left the company.

I noticed the higher price points the last 12-18 months, particularly the Zodiac series and some LE releases.

As long as they don’t deploy this pricing model to their entire portfolio, I’m okay with the strategy, but I will no longer purchase some of there “Uber luxurious time beautifully filled” cigars including this Maduro released. I did pick up another box of the Aniversario No. 1 LE this week for $411 which is steep discount from the MSRP of $640.

 

[MrBirdman]

  On 4/6/2024 at 7:12 PM, alexander.espinoza said:

As a longtime fan of the Kelner and Diaz, I’ve been a fan of Davidoff for many years, even after they left the company.

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They were a huge loss. So far Davidoff kept up the quality of releases it seems (I’m curious whether Diaz had a role in blending any of the releases from last year, which were excellent). 

[Wookie]

I gotta believe that before Davidoff separated from Kelner/Diaz they had people in place who trained under those two for a long time.

[teamrandr]

Wow!

[Jimmy2]

Had some of their high- end stuff last 3 years. They were ok and I enjoyed some of them but nothing mind blowing! The price they are asking for their so called limited or high end sticks are insane! Thank God they were free! 

It’s all marketing for them and cigar smokers eat it up.

[Lamboinee]

I still have trouble discerning what, exactly, is meant by "maduro". I feel that all tobacco used in a cigar should be "ripe" or "mature" for use in a smoke. Nevertheless, I recall Davidoff marketing their original "Maduro" cigar as having an especially dark wrapper that occurred "naturally" as compared to a dark wrapper that achieved it's "maduro" color by way of a special fermentation process. I'm having trouble finding ads or press releases related to this via internet searches, probably because Skynet is self aware. However, I was smoking cigars at a particular Davidoff merchant back-in-that-day, and I also recall the Davidoff sales rep discussing how Z.D. did not particularly care for Maduro cigars...which he implied contributed to the development of the unique maduro wrapper used for the original release. That's what I recall, but I can't prove it. I'm still interested in trying the new Maduro.

[JohnS]

Davidoff Maduro Returns

The dark, discontinued Dominican cigar has made a comeback, only this time with a different blend

Apr 25, 2024 - By Gregory Mottola

Photos/Davidoff

The Davidoff Maduro is back—sort of. Earlier this month, Davidoff of Geneva brought back its Davidoff Maduro brand, which it introduced in 2008 and discontinued in 2016. This version, however, is slightly different. 

“The new line is a successor to the Davidoff Maduro from 2008,” the company states, “with an adapted blend to mirror the consumers’ taste preference evolution.”

While both versions were made with Dominican filler, the original release came in a Nicaraguan wrapper and Dominican binder. The new Davidoff Maduro is rolled with a Mexican binder and Ecuadoran wrapper. According to the company, the wrapper underwent a 16-month fermentation period—twice the time of Davidoff’s typical fermentation cycles—on account of the leaves’ thick texture from growing high on the tobacco plant. The wrapper, Davidoff says, was then aged in bales for two years.

Now that the cigars are on store shelves, they’re available in three sizes: Short Corona, measuring 4 inches by 43 ring gauge ($43); Robusto, at 5 by 50 ($50); and a 6-by-54 Toro ($54). They’re packaged in boxes of 20 and are made at Cigars Davidoff in the Dominican Republic.

Davidoff Maduro is a limited-production brand and will only be released in small quantities. 

Source: https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/davidoff-maduro-returns