El Rey del Mundo Taínos Edición Regional Formosa 2018
8'888 numbered boxes for Taiwan island!
The island of Taiwan has just received its first regional edition: Taínos! This is the first time an Edición Regional bears an "Exclusivo Formosa" band!
According to the legend, when Portuguese sailors saw Taiwan for the first time in the 16th century, they exclaimed "Ilha Formosa", meaning “the marvelous island”. That is why the island of Taiwan was known in the western world as Formosa till the 20th century.
Regarding the name of the cigar, "Taínos" is certainly a nod to the eponymous Amerindian ethnicity that inhabited Cuba when Christopher Columbus first discovered tobacco on the land of the New World.
The vitola chosen by El Rey del Mundo for this regional edition is the Julieta No.2 (47 x 178 mm), the famous vitola originally exclusively rolled for Sir Winston Churchill and renamed "Churchill" in his honor by Romeo y Julieta.
Before the introduction of Taínos, there was only one regional edition that has already used this vitola: Ramón Allones with Estupendos Edición Regional Asia Pacifico 2006, also commissioned by Pacific Cigar Company, exclusive distributor of Habanos S.A. in Asia Pacific.
8 being the lucky number for the Chinese people and their neighbours, the production of Taínos is limited to only 8'888 box of 10 cigars each.
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EL REY DEL MUNDO Taínos Edición Regional Formosa 2018 - Box of 10
Vitola: Julieta No.2 (47 x 178 mm)
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