The Montecristo Edmundo Reserva, originally intended as a 2022 release, is now available in the United Kingdom in very limited quantities.
This is the ninth Reserva release after the series began in 2003 with the Cohiba Reserva Selección. It is also the second time that Montecristo has been called upon to create a Reserva, following the Montecristo No.4 from 2007.
These rare cigars are presented in numbered luxury boîte nature boxes containing twenty cigars, and each one is decorated with a second silver and black Reserva band. Just 5,000 numbered boxes (100,000 cigars) have been produced for the worldwide market and all of the tobacco used in their creation has been aged in bale for three years prior to rolling. In this instance, the Montecristo Edmundo Reserva has been made exclusively using tobacco from the 2018 harvest (cosecha).
These cigars have been blended to the classic Medium to Full-bodied Montecristo taste that many people consider the benchmark against which all other Havanas are measured. Established in 1935, today Montecristo is the world’s most popular Habanos brand and, in the UK, the Montecristo No.4 is the bestselling Havana cigar.
The original Edmundo- 5 1/3” (135mm) x 52 ring gauge – was released in 2004 and has since been joined by the Petit Edmundo (2006), Double Edmundo (2013) and Wide Edmundo (2021). In 2010 the Montecristo Edición Limitada (a Cañonazo size) was named the Grand Edmundo.
The name Edmundo is inspired by Edmundo Dantes, the eponymous hero of Alexandre Dumas’s novel, The Count of Montecristo.
All Montecristo are ‘tripa larga, totalmente a mano’ – long filler, totally handmade and use only the finest leaves from the Vuelta Abajo zone in Pinar del Rio, Cuba—the finest tobacco in the world.
