Berger and Argenti Entubar Quad Maduro
MIAMI – Berger & Argenti Premium Cigars announced the debut of Entubar Quad Maduro at the 78th IPCPR Convention and Trade Show in New Orleans, LA was an overwhelming success and enthusiastically received by retailers and consumers alike.
In it's coverage of the IPCPR Convention and Trade Show in New Orleans, Cigar Weekly was able to sample the new Quad Maduro line of Berger & Argenti's Entubar brand, which was introduced in 2009 at this same event. Speaking to Albert Argenti, of Berger & Argenti, Cigar Weekly learned that "overwhelming success" is not just sales bluster. This exhibit was busy with interested tobacconists every time CW's contributors called on Michael Argenti, Al Argenti and their colleagues.
By Wednesday of the show, Argenti noted, they had exceeded sales from 2009, as mentioned, the release of the Entubar brand. From the company press release:
ENTUBAR® QUAD MADUROis a full-bodied, super-premium extension of the sensational ENTUBAR® cigar brand which was unveiled to the public a year ago at IPCPR. Like ENTUBAR®, the QUAD MADUROpays tribute to the time-honored Cuban cigar making technique known as ‘entubar’ while also establishing a revolutionary new process of manufacturing premium cigars.
Each deeply aged Nicaraguan filler leaf that comprises the ENTUBAR® QUAD MADUROblend is carefully rolled creating delicate ‘scrolls’ of rich, flavorful tobacco. This age-old method ensures open chambers of air flow from the foot to the head of the cigar. The ligero tobacco, which lends the cigar its unique full body, are bunched independently and then placed into the center of the remaining ‘entubar’ rolled filler blend. This ‘channel’ of ligero tobacco ranges the full length of the cigar and extends ¼” beyond the finished trimmed foot, creating a startlingly unique ‘fuse like’ appearance that assures a superior draw, flawless conical burn with a long white ash, and a myriad of complex flavors channeled directly onto the palate. ENTUBAR® QUAD MADURO is ‘cuadrado’ pressed Habano and comprised of all Cuban-seed Nicaraguan (viso and ligero) and Dominican (seco) fillers, a savory Nicaraguan binder, and skillfully enveloped in a rich, dark Jalapa Valley-grown Maduro wrapper crop aged eight years in seasoned oak barrels.
Due to the meticulous small batch production of ENTUBAR® QUAD MADURO, only ‘friends’ and authorized ENTUBAR® merchants in the United States will have access to the brand. ENTUBAR® QUAD MADUROis delicately packaged in rustic Spanish cedar boxes of 20 cigars and available in four (4) distinct vitolas characterized by sumptuously large ring gauges:
Corona Macho (4 5/8” x 48);
Robusto (5 3/8” x 54);
Double Corona (7 5/8” x 54);
and Torpedo (6 7/8” x 56).Entubar Corona Macho
Cigar Weekly's editors had the opportunity to try these, and found them to be well constructed which lead to a consistent burn after ensuring the ligero "fuse" as they call it, gets well lit. Ligero is more resistant to burn which ensures a slower, cooler smoke. While common sense would indicate a strong, heady cigar precisely because of this ligero, this one was not, there was no "buzz" of nicotine to speak of, instead its richness could be enjoyed even earlier in the day than conventional cigar wisdom would indicate.
Al Argenti presenting Entubar Quad Maduro raffle prize at CW Herf.