Casa Carrillo Battleborn Variety 5 Cigar Sampler With Dog Tag

Five cigars. One dog tag. And a lineup that tells the full story of what Ernesto Perez-Carrillo and his family have built across five decades of devotion to the craft. The Battleborn Variety Sampler anchors itself in courage, carries itself with elegance, and closes in darkness — all wearing a Battleborn dog tag worthy of the collection.

The Battleborn Toro leads the charge in its namesake 6 x 56 format, a Connecticut Broadleaf-wrapped, dual-binded full-body tribute limited to just 2,500 numbered boxes honoring U.S. Navy veteran Lionel McKoy. It is bold, it is purposeful, and it sets a high bar from the first draw. The Pledge Purple Toro follows as the fifth anniversary of one of the most awarded cigars Ernesto has ever released, built on the same Connecticut Havana seed leaf as the legendary original but aged a full decade longer for a richness and sweetness that makes the already-celebrated Pledge feel like a new discovery. The La Historia Silk Toro shifts into medium-body elegance with the hand-selected Ecuadorian Habano wrapper that Lissette Perez-Carrillo helped craft through consultation with women across the cigar community, delivering cedar, cream, and subtle floral complexity across a flawless box-pressed burn.

The Encore Celestial is the crown jewel of the Casa Carrillo legacy, the 2018 Cigar of the Year at 96 points from Cigar Aficionado, a 100% Nicaraguan puro aged in tercios — palm bark bales that create a two-way humidification system during fermentation — delivering toasted almond, mocha, caramel, oak, and sweet citrus in a medium-to-full body that earned every accolade it received. And the Essence Maduro Toro closes things out in full darkness, a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a Honduran binder and Nicaraguan fillers that brings rich, bold, balanced character to one of the more approachable maduro expressions in the Casa Carrillo catalog. Five blends. One dog tag. Born to battle.