Cigar News: Cigar Culture Facebook Group – Adrian Acosta – Announces Culture Blend No.3

This past weekend, Adrian Acosta, co-founder/member of the Cigar Culture Facebook Group, announced the culmination of a long journey to release the groups first premium cigar. Known as Culture Blend No.3, it was the result of trying 60 different blends over a number of years before Adrian’s vision was realized.

According to Acosta:

“The Culture Blend No.3 is an extremely complex medium to full bodied cigar using well processed and aged tobacco from Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Ecuador, the result is a unique and exquisite cigar.“

The Culture Blend No.3 is described as an extremely complex, medium to full bodied cigar, using well processed and aged tobacco from Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Ecuador, the result is a unique and exquisite cigar.

The blend is offered in excruciating detail:

Wrapper – Habano 2000 Ecuador (2014 crop)
Binder – Olor Dominicano – Villa Gonzalez, Dom.Rep (2014 crop)
Filler –
- San Vicente – Peñuela, Dom. Rep (2015 crop)
- Piloto Cubano – Piloto Mao, Dom. Rep (2015 crop)
- Criollo 98 – La Canela, Dom. Rep (2015 crop)
- San Vicente Mejorado (2014 crop)
- Criollo 98 Nicaragua – Condega (2015 crop)

Adrian notes that this is a cigar that was imagined and created to be enjoyed by family and friends around the world and he exclaimed:

“This project is dedicated to my family for the sacrifices made which left me with a good foundation and respect for tobacco”

The Culture Blend No.3 is expressed in a single (6 x 50) toro vitola and are packaged in 10-count bundles with an MSRP set at $98.50/bundle.

The group has produced around 25,000 cigars for the first run with limited tobacco. They plan to do a second run in about 5 years, so they can promise the same quality and blend and properly age the tobacco used.

The press release closed with a statement of quality and commitment:

“Those who produce their varieties, sow, cultivate and harvest their tobacco, will always have good cigars. Those who are unaware of these procedures will never know what they have.
Quality and respect for our extended family of retailers and cigar aficionado friends come first in our agenda.”