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作为哈伯纳斯珍藏系列的一员，蒙特大金字塔（Gran Pirámides）终于在全球各地的零售店上架了，从技术角度来说，这款雪茄是2017年发布的，但直到2019年，零售商们才见到这款雪茄的真面目。
这款大金字塔可以看做是蒙特2号的加强版，57环径，6.25英寸，每盒20支装。和珍藏系列的所有款式一样，这款蒙特大金字塔的包装盒设计成一本书的模样，每次发布这种款式都称为“卷”。
伦敦的C·卡尔斯有限公司的总经理米切尔·奥查特（Mitchell Orchant）说，虽然姗姗来迟，但是值得期待。米切尔在英国有多家雪茄零售店，他还拥有位于英国切斯特的哈瓦那之家授权门店。他说，跟上古巴发布新品的步伐并不容易，每次我们不确定何时可以拿到新品，最后当我们拿到配货时，远远的满足不了需求。
这款书本珍藏版本只生产了2000盒，价格也十分昂贵。伦敦的詹姆斯·J·福克斯（James J.Fox）商店的售价是每盒4000英镑，折合5175美元，也就是每一支蒙特大金字塔售价折合258美元。
古巴哈伯纳斯公司是古巴雪茄的垄断经销商，2001年开始发行书本珍藏系列，基本上每年都会推出一款。2001年第一次发布的是库阿巴所罗门（Cuaba Salamones）。
The Cuban Montecristo Gran Pirámides, part of the limited Colección Habanos series, have finally started to reach retail shops across the globe—and they’re not cheap. Although this release is technically the 2017 edition, shop owners have only begun to see them this month.
At 6 1/4 inches by 57 ring gauge, the Montecristo Gran Pirámide is a longer, thicker and beefed up version of the classic Montecristo No. 2, (6 1/8 by 52). The cigars come 20 per box.
Like all cigars in the Colección Habanos series, the Gran Pirámides are packaged in a box that looks like a book. Each release is called a tomo, or volume.
“Overdue, but worth the wait,” said Mitchell Orchant, managing director of C.Gars Ltd. in London. He owns many shops throughout the U.K. including a La Casa del Habano shop in Chester, England. “It’s not easy to keep up with the new releases, as there seems to be little pattern to what we get and when we get them, but at least when we do finally get them, demand outstrips supply.”
Only 2,000 boxes were produced, and as you can probably surmise, a Cuban release this limited can be quite expensive. London’s James J. Fox store sells the Montecristo Gran Pirámides for £4,000 (about $5,175) per box, which averages out to around £200 per cigar, or about $258 each. That’s a pricey pirámide.
Habanos S.A., the Cuban monopoly and global distributor of Cuban cigars, started this program in 2001 with the Cuaba Salamones. It has released a new Colección Habanos cigar almost every year since.
