#2 2024 Cigar of the Year

#2 2024 Cigar of the Year – Aladino Classic Elegante by JRE Tobacco Co.

SPECIFICATIONS

Wrapper: Honduran Habano
Binder: Honduran Corojo
Filler: Honduran Habano, Honduran Corojo
Country of Origin: Honduras
Factory: Fabrica de Puros Aladino S.A. in Honduras
Elegante: 38 x 7
Price: $9.50

Sponsor: Yes
Samples Provided for Initial Review: No
Review: Aladino Classic Elegante by JRE Tobacco Co.
Appearances on Countdown (By Year/Company): 7 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024)

The Details

The Aladino Classic Elegante by JRE Tobacco Co. is ranked second on the 2024 Cigar of the Year Countdown.

The Aladino Classic Elegante is a lancero-size line extension introduced to the Aladino Classic line in 2023. JRE Tobacco Co is known for using Authentic Corojo tobacco from its farms. At the same time, the company grows other types of tobacco, one of which is Habano leaf. Since Habano is known as a classic tobacco leaf, the name Aladino Classic was adopted.

In addition to Habano tobacco, the Aladino Classic line also incorporates Authentic Corojo. The wrapper and a component of the filler are Habano leaf. Meanwhile, the binder and a component of the filler are Corojo. Production comes from JRE’s Fabrica de Puros Aladino S.A. production facility in Honduras. The lancero has a “classic” 38 x 7 size, but without the pig-tail.

The Aladino Classic Elegante delivered notes of natural tobacco, earth, baker’s spice, pepper, and a unique candy apple note. Keeping with the theme of the 2024 countdown, this was a medium-bodied cigar countered by medium flavors. By far, the Elegante is the “Belle of the Ball” of the Aladino Classic line.

If you have followed the Countdown, you know this is the seventh year a JRE Tobacco cigar has landed on a Countdown. This includes two other podium finishes, #2 in 2016 with another lancero, the Aladino Elegante, and a 2018 Cigar of the Year with the Aladino Corojo Reserva Robusto. It’s also JRE’s third cigar on the 2024 Countdown. Meanwhile, the Aladino Classic Elegante gives Honduras its fifth cigar on the 2024 Countdown.


 

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