目睹这些年古巴、尼加拉瓜、多米尼加的雪茄制造商们推出不少昂贵雪茄，洪都拉斯的雪茄制造商 C.L.E.决定在这块高消费市场发力。下周，新的庇护系列产品将发货给零售商。新品有两个尺寸，一款在美国的售价是每支50美元，另一款是每支60美元。

这两款昂贵的雪茄都是全洪都拉斯烟叶卷制，在洪都拉斯生产。C.L.E. 公司的创始人克里斯蒂安·埃罗阿解释说，售价高的原因是雪茄里加入了一款名为Pinareño的古巴种子烟叶。埃罗阿家族本身是洪都拉斯的烟草种植者。但是他们家族并不种植这款烟叶。克里斯蒂安解释说，这款Pinareño十分娇贵，容易感染病虫害，很难种植。

新品命名为Sensorium（感知），使用了洪都拉斯种植的科罗霍（Corojo）烟叶，这是埃罗阿家族在洪都拉斯的贾马斯兰特山谷种植了几十年的烟叶品种。

两款新茄，一款是 Sensorium Asen 18 ，一款鱼类造型，最粗的地方是52环径，6英寸长，售价50美元。一款是Asen 60，60环径，6英寸，售价60美元。这两款产品都是每支装在独立的棺材盒内，每盒20个的包装。据悉这两款产品每年将限制生产1万支。

Seeing how there’s no shortage of expensive cigars from Cuba, Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic these days, C.L.E. Cigar Co. has decided to tap into that spendy market and release a pair of high-priced Hondurans. The new Asylum Sensorium will ship to retailers next week and it comes in two sizes: one retailing for $50 each and the other for $60. Both are made in Honduras by C.L.E. and composed entirely of Honduran tobacco.

According to Christian Eiroa, founder and president of C.L.E. (and part of a tobacco-growing family), one of the main reasons for the high cost is the incorporation of Pinareño, a Cuban-seed tobacco that his family doesn't normally grow. Eiroa says that Pinareño is a delicate tobacco that’s highly susceptible to disease and very difficult to cultivate. The Asylum Sensorium is also made with Honduran Corojo, a varietal grown for decades by the Eiroa family in the Jamastran Valley. 

The Asylum Sensorium Asen 18 is made in the 11/18 size, a bulging figurado made popular by the Eiroas when they owned the Camacho brand. It measures 6 inches by 52 ring gauge at its fattest point, with a $50 price tag. At 6 by 60, the Asen 60 has a suggested retail price of $60. Both come in individual coffins and are packaged in boxes of 20. Production will be limited to an annual run of 10,000 cigars per size. 

C.L.E. describes the Asylum brand as the “alter ego” of the company, allowing Eiroa to “experiment with out-of-the-box ideas that break tradition.”