La Gloria Cubana Británicas Extra Edición Regional Gran Bretaña 2017
The return of this complex vitola on British soil!
Initially scheduled for 2017, the United Kingdom has just received its 10th regional edition. Arriving three years late, the Británicas Extra from La Gloria Cubana is finally available. It was announced before, but arrived after La Reina from El Rey del Mundo (Edición Regional Gran Bretaña 2018).
The Británicas Extra is the second regional edition of La Gloria Cubana for the United Kingdom. Indeed, the first one dates back to 2008, the Gloriosos (Dobles 50 x 155 mm). It was then dressed with a second band "Exclusivo Reino Unido", like all British regional editions before 2011. Since then, the second band bears the words "Exclusivo Gran Bretaña".
The chosen module, a Británicas Extra (48 x 137 mm), which has also lent its name to the regional edition, is otherwise known as the Perfecto. Due to the complexity of their construction and the exceptional know-how they require, these modules are at the pinnacle of the art of Torcedor. Its first appearance dates back to 2011 with Bolívar for the first Edición Regional Gran Bretaña: the Bolívar Británicas.
However, its origins are in fact much more distant, as the Británicas Extra vitola (48 x 137 mm) is a derivative of the Británicas vitola (46 x 137 mm), used by Hoyo de Monterrey for the Obsequios and Romeo y Julieta for the Celestiales Finos. Two cigars appeared in the respective catalogues of the two brands before the 1960s. Thus the qualifier "Extra" was added to underline the passage of the cepo from 46 to 48.
For the occasion, the cigar is dressed with a special band, reminiscent of that of the Gloriosos, itself the result of research conducted by Jemma Freeman, Managing Director of Hunters & Frankau, in the brand's archives. Indeed, while the new La Gloria Cubana band features a woman from the Belle Époque period drawn in black and white and bears the words "Habana-Cuba", the ring that dresses the Británicas Extra features the same woman, this time printed in high definition and in colour. In addition, it bears the word "Habana", as do the brand's old bands produced before 2017. The result is a band that seems to have come out of a Renaissance painting.
The production of Británicas Extra is limited to 6,000 individually numbered boxes of 10 cigars for the British market.
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LA GLORIA CUBANA Británicas Extra Edición Regional Gran Bretaña 2017 - Box of 10
Vitola: Británicas Extra (48 x 137 mm)
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