The E.P. Carrillo Allegiance, the fourth installment of the Perez-Carillo Family Series, is now heading to stores. Allegiance was launched at the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. At the time, the final packaging and banding had not been announced. Last month, the final packaging was shown off as the bands of the […]
E.P. Carrillo has announced it is changing the secondary bands on its Perez-Carrillo Series. The new secondary names will now identify the name of the blend. Previously the secondary band read “PEREZ-CARRILLO.” The change to these bands will be across the four blends in the Perez-Carrillo Series: La Historia, Encore, Pledge, and the soon-to-be-released Allegiance. […]
In 2021, E.P. Carrillo announced it was bringing back a small batch series known as the Short Run. The series was launched in 2010 and through 2016, it became a staple of the E.P. Carrillo portfolio. While it was never clear why the series was discontinued, one can infer several factors caused this: a restructuring […]
2022 was probably the biggest trade show in terms of new products for E.P. Carrillo since 2016. There were two significant themes going on at E.P. Carrillo. For many years, E.P. Carrillo’s factory, Tabacalera La Alianza, has produced cigars for other manufacturers. This year the tables are turning as owner Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. has blended […]
Since 2018, E.P. Carrillo has participated in the annual Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series of cigars. After a couple of line extensions in 2019 and 2020 that were done for the TAA, 2021 saw E.P. Carrillo deliver a new blend to the series. It’s a cigar simply dubbed the E.P. Carrillo TAA 2021. […]
As a part of the celebration of E.P. Carrillo founder Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr‘s 70th birthday, the company has created a three-cigar sampler known as the Platinum Bash. The Platinum Bash will feature three unreleased blends, and consumers will get a chance to select one of the blends as a future E.P. Carrillo limited edition release. […]
On the eve of the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, E.P. Carrillo has announced another cigar being made outside its own factory. The cigar is called the E.P. Carrillo Allegiance, and it’s being made by Oliva Cigar Company. Cigar Aficionado has reported that the Allegiance will be a limited production cigar, with 5,000 […]
After a five-year hiatus, EP Carrillo has brought back the Short Run. The Short Run was a small batch run using a different wrapper each year except for two years in which they used Ecuadorian Sumatra. The 2021 Short Run is brought back using a retro theme as it uses the original bands from the […]
At the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, EP Carrillo will add a fourth size to its Pledge line – the Lonsdale Limitada. The company confirmed the new size on its website. The E.P. Carrillo Pledge Lonsdale Limitada is a 6 1/2 x 43 box-pressed vitola. Cigar Aficionado reports the production will be […]
The ten year anniversary of the E.P. Carrillo INCH line is this year. This summer the company is introducing a new blend under the line called INCH Nicaragua, and it is giving the other two blends in the line a new modern look. The E.P. Carrillo INCH Natural and Maduro lines will receive a new […]
