With 2025 being the Year of the Snake, Davidoff has announced the latest installment of its Chinese Zodiac Series, the Davidoff Year of the Snake Limited Edition 2025. Previously, Davidoff released a Year of the Snake Cigar late in 2013. However, the Davidoff Year of the Snake 2025 will feature a new blend and come in three different offerings.
First, there will be the Davidoff Year of the Snake Limited Edition Lancero. Davidoff Appointed Merchants will receive that vitola. While it’s called a lancero, it is significantly thicker than the standard lancero size, measuring 7 x 43. It is priced at $62.00 each and packaged in ten-count boxes with a total production of 17,500 boxes.
Second, a Toro size will be sold at Davidoff Flagship (company-owned) stores. Production is 600 24-count units.
In addition, there will be an ultra-premium Davidoff Masterpiece Humidor containing an exclusive Gran Toro size. Production comes in at 24 88-count units.
The Davidoff Year of the Snake blend features Ecuadorian tobacco for the wrapper and binder. The filler is a combination of Mexican and Dominican tobaccos. It is the first Davidoff blend to use a Dominican hybrid seed ’98 tobacco from the Martin Garcia region. Meanwhile, it’s only the second time Mexican tobacco has been used in the filler of a Davidoff blend.
Finally, there is a Davidoff Year of the Snake Accessories Gift Set. This features a porcelain ashtray, a cigar case, and a punch cutter. The box has a snake pop-up display that allows aficionados to showcase their Gift Set with the lid open. In addition, the set includes a collector’s coin that can be used as a cigar stand.
Davidoff has not disclosed the vitola sizes or pricing to the media. But Cigar Coop has confirmed the size and pricing of the Lancero and pricing of the Gift Set accessories through multiple Davidoff Appointed Merchants.
“To mark this very special occasion, we wanted to delight our aficionados with novelties around our Lunar New Year celebrations, while preserving our original intention of these product launches: Celebrate in style, honour the zodiac and create truly unique cigars that will fill our aficionados’ time beautifully – for the first time with three different formats,” says Edward Simon, CMO at Oettinger Davidoff in a press release. “I am convinced that with this new cycle, we will distinguish ourselves through our leap forward in terms of innovation and packaging design. The changes we have made make our collection more relevant than ever to our customers around the world.”
The Davidoff Year of the Snake Limited Edition 2015 ships on November 14, 2024.
Davidoff Chinese Zodiac Releases
Below is a complete list of the Davidoff Chinese Zodiac releases.
- 2012: Davidoff Year of the Dragon (Limited Asia Release)
- 2013: Davidoff Year of the Snake
- 2014: Davidoff Year of the Horse
- 2015: Davidoff Year of the Sheep
- 2016: Davidoff Year of the Monkey
- 2017: Davidoff Year of the Rooster
- 2018: Davidoff Year of the Dog
- 2019: Davidoff Year of the Pig
- 2020: Davidoff Year of the Rat
- 2021: Davidoff Year of the Ox
- 2022: Davidoff Year of the Tiger
- 2023: Davidoff Year of the Rabbit
- 2024: Davidoff Year of the Dragon
- 2024: Davidoff Year of Collector’s Edition (Zodiac releases 2013 through 2024)
- 2025: Davidoff Year of the Snake
Photo Credits: Oettinger Davidoff AG