At the 2025 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, Selected Tobacco unveiled the Byron 175th Anniversary Humidor. As the name suggests, the humidor commemorates 175 years of the Byron brand.
The Byron brand traces its origins to Cuba in 1850, where the Byron Selección 1850 derives its name. In 1850, Jose and Eusebio Alfonso created the “Lord Byron” – one of which was Selected Tobacco owner Nelson Alfonso’s great-great-great-grandfather. The original cigar was made in a small factory in Santiago de las Vegas in the Havana province of Cuba. The name Byron honors George Gordon Byron, better known as “Lord Byron” – a renowned English poet. The brand lasted over 80 years before it folded during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The brand would be dormant until 1998, when Nelson Alfonso would recover the Byron brand name.
Features
The 175th Anniversary humidor is limited to 175 units, and it features the following:
- Two side drawers are designed to house exclusive Byron accessories
- A three-finger cigar case and matching ultramarine ashtray, both crafted to complement the humidor’s regal presence
- A top shelf, revealed by lifting twin Byron knobs, holding 20 cigars with concealed humidification chambers beneath
- A secret lower chamber that unveils the remainder of the curated selection
- A gold-accented front panel that discreetly conceals a hygrometer, temperature gauge, and locking mechanism
Cigars
In addition, the 175th Anniversary Humidor comes with 60 cigars, with 15 of the following. These cigars each represent the four lines under Selected Tobacco’s Byron brand.
- Byron 1850 No.3 (6×52)
- Byron 19th Century Grand Poemas (6 x 56)
- Byron 20th Century Habaneros (6 x 54)
- Byron 21st Century Elegantes (6 1/8 x 55)
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In a press release before PCA 2025, Nelson Alfonso, the visionary behind Selected Tobacco, shares, “For me, Byron is not only a cigar. It is a story of my family, of my country, of the time. This humidor is to honor this story, one piece of my soul in each box. We age the cigars with patience, with love. This is not only to smoke, it is to feel.”
At the time of the show, pricing was unavailable, but retailers have listed the humidor before shipping at $4,800.
Photo Credit: Selected Tobacco, via United Cigars
