三年前，阿塔迪斯烟草公司再次推出非古版本的路易斯雷（Saint Luis Rey）品牌新品，开发了陈年烟叶卷制的卡雷纳斯（Carenas）系列。眼下，一款新的卡雷纳斯正在向零售商发货，公司称，这次使用的烟叶发酵时间更久。

阿塔迪斯公司透露，这款卡雷纳斯的Ultramar是委托洪都拉斯的卡潘之花雪茄厂生产的，使用了特别发酵的烟叶卷制而成，但是没有说明这些烟叶比卡雷纳斯系列之前的陈年烟叶要老多久。

原版的卡雷纳斯系列使用的茄衣是尼加拉瓜烟叶，茄套、茄芯是洪都拉斯烟叶。而这款Ultramar的茄衣、茄套都是尼加拉瓜烟叶，茄芯是洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜的混合烟叶。

Ultramar系列有四个尺寸，皇冠，45环径，5.625英寸，售价是每支9.10美元。罗布图，50环径，5英寸，售价每支9.64美元。公牛，52环径，6英寸，每支售价9.75美元。马格讷姆，60环径，6英寸，每支售价10.69美元。每盒都是20支装，包装盒内盖印制一艘西班牙大帆船，这也符合品牌的主题。Ultramar在西班牙语是“海外”的意思。

品牌经理Gabe Diaz表示，从南美洲新大陆运往西班牙的烟叶是已知的第一种陈年发酵的烟草，最初发布的卡雷纳斯系列的味道与美洲新大陆的烟草相似，而这款Ultramar又代表了那些经过海运到达西班牙后就可以抽食享用的经过特别发酵的陈年烟叶。

Three years ago, Altadis dusted off its sleepy Saint Luis Rey line and gave it new life with the Carenas blend. Now, a new version is shipping to retailers and according to brand owner Altadis U.S.A., the tobaccos in this blend are even older. 

The Saint Luis Rey Carenas Ultramar is made in Honduras at the Flor de Copan factory using an “extra-aged blend of tobaccos,” Altadis says, while not specifying exactly how much older these tobaccos are than the ones used in the Carenas line. There’s another difference in the blend besides the age; Ultramar’s wrapper and binder are both from Nicaragua, and the filler is a combination of Honduran and Nicaraguan leaf, compared to the original Carenas blend, which consists of Honduran filler and binder and Nicaraguan wrapper.

Carenas Ultramar comes in four sizes: Corona, measuring 5 5/8 inches by 45 ring gauge ($9.10); Robusto, at 5 by 50 ($9.64); Toro, at 6 by 52 ($9.75) and a 6-by-60 Magnum ($10.69). All come in 20-count boxes with a Spanish galleon depicted on the inner lid, which plays to the brand’s theme (ultramar means “overseas” in Spanish).

“The transport of tobacco in the ships destined for Spain from the New World, was the first known form of tobacco fermentation and aging,” says Gabe Diaz, brand manager for Altadis U.S.A. “The original Saint Luis Rey Carenas parallels how the tobacco would have tasted in the New World. The Saint Luis Rey Carenas Ultramar represents the extra-aged tobacco that would have been smoked upon the shipment’s arrival in Spain.”

See a future issue of Cigar Insider for a vertical brand tasting of the Saint Luis Rey Carenas Ultramar.