Aladino Vintage Selection Rothschild (4.5×48)

Julio Eiroa is the reason Honduras matters in the conversation about world-class tobacco. His family cultivates Authentic Corojo seed on Honduran soil at Finca Corojo outside Danlí, the same way it was grown in Cuba before the revolution scattered the seed across Central America. The Vintage Selection is where that legacy gets its most deliberate expression. Every leaf in the blend goes back to Finca Corojo, then gets rolled and rested for four to five years before it ever reaches your humidor.

What that kind of patience produces in a 4.5×48 Rothschild is remarkable: a smaller format that punches well above its ring gauge, delivering cedar, espresso, toasted bread, a touch of red pepper on the retrohale, and a creamy, lingering finish that earned the Rothschild a 94-point score at Stogie Press. Fifty to a cabinet. For a 94-point cigar at this price, you stack the cabinet and you do not apologize for it.