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Los Angeles, March 7 – Avo Uvezian was born on March 22, 1926, so he’ll shortly be 81 years young. Time for a new Avo Limited Edition.
In the seventh of what is now an annual series, the 2007 Avo Limited Edition – the L.E.07 – will debut at a series of 12 dinners hosted by leading tobacconists around the country beginning on March 16.
The first stop will be with his friends at Corona Cigar Company of Lake Mary, Florida, home of the Avo Lounge, to be followed by another event with the Corona Cigar Co. store in Orlando, Florida in the evening following.
The highlight will be the introduction of the L.E.07, a 5 5/8-inch by 48-ring short Toro, offered unbanded and uncellophaned (!) in elegant boxes of 20 (pictured above). As in the past, the blend features a sun-grown Ecuadorian wrapper, Dominican-grown binder and filler leaves, this time emphasizing the Piloto Cubano and San Vicente strains. The result is a cigar “on the fuller side compared to the standard lines,” notes Avo brand manager Matthew Kern of Davidoff of Geneva. Kern further wrote that the blend is “still very rich, aromatic and balanced.”
In the case of the Avo limiteds, this cigar really is a limited edition. A total of 7,000 boxes (140,000 cigars) will be produced in total, with 4,000 boxes (80,000 cigars) reserved for the U.S. market.
The Avo Limited Edition tradition began in 2001 with the Avo 75, a salute to the composer’s 75th birthday. The 7-inch by 50-ring double coronas were so popular that the blend was quickly moved into regular production as the Avo Signature Series and the popularity of the limited-edition concept was proven.
Since then, Davidoff has issued the Avo 22 (5 7/8 x 50 unbanded perfectos), the Avo 77 (6 1/2 x 50), the Avo Legacy (5 3/4 x 48), the Avo LE5 (5 3/8 x 52) and, last year, the Avo 80 (6 x 52 perfecto).
The L.E. 07 dinner tour will end in Nashville, Tennessee on April 23 with an event hosted by Belle Meade Premium Cigars.
Davidoff is easily the leader in limited-editions for the U.S. market, issuing limiteds annually for its top three brands: Avo, Davidoff (beginning 2002) and The Griffin’s (beginning 2004). It started the concept in the U.S. in 1997 with a special “535" cigar to mark the 10th anniversary of its flagship store at 535 Madison Avenue in New York, well ahead of the Cuban Edicion Limitada program that began in 2000.
Los Angeles, March 7 – Avo Uvezian was born on March 22, 1926, so he’ll shortly be 81 years young. Time for a new Avo Limited Edition.
In the seventh of what is now an annual series, the 2007 Avo Limited Edition – the L.E.07 – will debut at a series of 12 dinners hosted by leading tobacconists around the country beginning on March 16.
The first stop will be with his friends at Corona Cigar Company of Lake Mary, Florida, home of the Avo Lounge, to be followed by another event with the Corona Cigar Co. store in Orlando, Florida in the evening following.
The highlight will be the introduction of the L.E.07, a 5 5/8-inch by 48-ring short Toro, offered unbanded and uncellophaned (!) in elegant boxes of 20 (pictured above). As in the past, the blend features a sun-grown Ecuadorian wrapper, Dominican-grown binder and filler leaves, this time emphasizing the Piloto Cubano and San Vicente strains. The result is a cigar “on the fuller side compared to the standard lines,” notes Avo brand manager Matthew Kern of Davidoff of Geneva. Kern further wrote that the blend is “still very rich, aromatic and balanced.”
In the case of the Avo limiteds, this cigar really is a limited edition. A total of 7,000 boxes (140,000 cigars) will be produced in total, with 4,000 boxes (80,000 cigars) reserved for the U.S. market.
The Avo Limited Edition tradition began in 2001 with the Avo 75, a salute to the composer’s 75th birthday. The 7-inch by 50-ring double coronas were so popular that the blend was quickly moved into regular production as the Avo Signature Series and the popularity of the limited-edition concept was proven.
Since then, Davidoff has issued the Avo 22 (5 7/8 x 50 unbanded perfectos), the Avo 77 (6 1/2 x 50), the Avo Legacy (5 3/4 x 48), the Avo LE5 (5 3/8 x 52) and, last year, the Avo 80 (6 x 52 perfecto).
The L.E. 07 dinner tour will end in Nashville, Tennessee on April 23 with an event hosted by Belle Meade Premium Cigars.
Davidoff is easily the leader in limited-editions for the U.S. market, issuing limiteds annually for its top three brands: Avo, Davidoff (beginning 2002) and The Griffin’s (beginning 2004). It started the concept in the U.S. in 1997 with a special “535" cigar to mark the 10th anniversary of its flagship store at 535 Madison Avenue in New York, well ahead of the Cuban Edicion Limitada program that began in 2000.