烟草行业的资深老兵，曾经在大卫杜夫雪茄公司工作超过60年的埃拉迪奥·迪亚兹（Eladio Diaz）即将推出自己的第一个常规雪茄品牌这款雪茄名为“之前&之后”（Before & After），将在多米尼加共和国生产，在迪亚兹自己开设的雪茄厂里卷制。
迪亚兹2021年离开大卫杜夫雪茄公司，独自创建了迪亚兹卡布雷拉雪茄厂（Tabacalera Diaz Cabrera），很快就与弗洛伊德雪茄公司（Freud Cigar Co.）签订协议为其代工生产雪茄。2023年，迪亚兹发布了一款以自己名字命名的限量版雪茄，庆祝自己70周岁生日。如今推出的Before & After是他的第一个常规产品线雪茄品牌。
这个品牌的雪茄茄衣采用了厄瓜多尔科罗霍烟叶，茄套是多米尼加哈瓦那2000烟叶，茄芯包含了多米尼加种植的哈瓦那2000、古巴皮洛托、哈瓦那92等品种的混合烟叶。茄芯里也掺入了一些多米尼加阔叶。
这个系列有三个尺寸。我的家庭，50环径，5英寸，售价每支15美元。热情，52环径，6英寸，每支售价16美元。Legado，54环径，5.75英寸，售价16.5美元。每个尺寸都是20支的装盒。
迪亚兹在解释这个品牌命名时，这样说，这种烟叶混合代表了我以前在大卫杜夫工作时的感受，以及我出来创业后的感受，看见我的孩子们继续传承着对于我来说是一种爱的工作。
雪茄将交给美国的阿朗戈雪茄公司（Arango Cigar Co.）经销，预计4月15日运往零售商。
Tobacco veteran Eladio Diaz is releasing his first regular-production cigar brand and it’s being distributed by Arango Cigar Co. Called Before & After, the cigar is made in the Dominican Republic at Diaz’s factory and should be heading to retailers on April 15.
A Davidoff of Geneva alum, Diaz left the Swiss company in 2021 and went off on his own to start his factory, Tabacalera Diaz Cabrera. Diaz gained some attention when he produced cigars under contract for Freud Cigar Co. Last year, he released a limited-edition anniversary smoke with his name on it, and now Before & After is a full-fledged brand in normal production.
Before & After consists of an Ecuadoran Corojo wrapper, Dominican Habano 2000 binder and filler blend of Dominican Habano 2000, Piloto Cubano and Habano ’92. There’s also some Dominican broadleaf in the filler as well.
The new brand comes in three sizes: My Family, measuring 5 inches by 50 ring gauge ($15); Pasion, at 6 by 52 ($16) and Legado, 5 3/4 by 54 ($16.50). All come in 20-count boxes.
Explaining the name, Diaz says that the blend of tobaccos “represents my before, when I was an employee in a cigar factory, and my after, seeing my children keeping alive the legacy of what has been a labor of love for me.”
