Fratello Cigars To Release Limited-Edition Boxer Series

Source from:  Cigar Aficionado 10/21/2015

Fratello Cigars, known for its namesake cigar brand Fratello, is preparing to launch a limited-edition, five-cigar set called The Boxer Series next month. The new brand is an offshoot of the popular Boxer size from the original Fratello line, which brand owner Omar de Frias called "The best-selling vitola we have on the original line."

Though technically part of the original Fratello series, the 6 1/4 inch by 52 ring Boxer size is unique, as it's box-pressed with a slightly different blend from the core line. Because of its popularity, de Frias turned the single size into an entire brand.

"The 2014 release of the Fratello Boxer was a great success for our company," de Frias said. "We tweaked the Fratello blend, box-pressed the cigar and people loved it."

The new Boxer Series features the same core tobacco components as the original Fratello line, with slightly tweaked proportions, and consists of a Nicaraguan wrapper, Ecuadoran binder and filler tobacco from Nicaragua and Peru. When Cigar Insider asked de Frias to explain what exactly had been tweaked on the original Fratello blend to create The Boxer, and the new Boxer Series, he responded: "Mostly the ratio of ligero versus the Peruvian tobacco we used."

The Boxer Series will only be available as a five-pack wooden box, which resembles a cigar mold that holds one of each size: The original Boxer, at 6 1/4 by 52; Boxeador, 6 by 54; Boxero, 5 1/2 by 50; Boxista, 5 by 48; and Boxerito, 4 3/4 by 46. Only 3,000 boxes have been produced.

The Boxer Series five-pack will carry a suggested retail price of $45 and is set to debut at W. Curtis Draper Tobacconist in Washington D.C. next month before shipping to retailers nationwide immediately after the event.

The cigars are made at the Fábrica de Tabacos Joya de Nicaragua S.A. factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. Enditem