美国阿塔迪斯烟草（Altadis U.S.A.）公司旗下的非古品牌乌普曼180周年系列下周将向零售商发货，只比原计划稍微了一点。今年是乌普曼品牌创建180周年，阿塔迪斯烟草公司原计划6月份发行这款丘吉尔。预计7月26日公司在佛罗里达州的仓库开始发货。

今年的纪念版只有一个尺寸，丘吉尔，50环径，7英寸。委托尼加拉瓜的A.J.费尔南德斯生产。乌普曼曾经有一款175周年纪念版，在Cigar Aficionado的2019年评选里获得年度第10名。180周年纪念版的尺寸和175周年是一样的，只是烟叶混合配方不同。

阿塔迪斯烟草公司的母公司美国烟草公司的产品能力副总裁拉斐尔·诺达尔（Rafael Nodal）告诉记者，这款180周年纪念版丘吉尔雪茄是全尼加拉瓜烟叶卷制，最大的亮点是茄衣使用了medio tiempo烟叶，这是一款杂交种子，这种烟叶是一种小叶片，有时候长在烟草植株的顶部，口味力度很强，备受重视。

180周年纪念版雪茄每盒10支装，售价是每支22.5美元，计划生产5000盒。

下周同时发货的还有一款周年纪念雪茄盒，里面有50支公牛尺寸的乌普曼180周年纪念版雪茄，50环径，6英寸。这种雪茄盒每个售价1500美元，一共生产180个。

The H. Upmann 180th Anniversary is going out to retailers next week, just a bit behind schedule. This year marks H. Upmann’s 180th birthday, and the anniversary cigars from Altadis U.S.A. were initially slated for a June release. Shipments of the new cigars will be leaving the company’s Florida warehouse on Monday.

The cigars come in one size—a Churchill measuring 7 inches by 50 ring gauge—and are made in Nicaragua by A.J. Fernandez. Like the H. Upmann 175th Anniversary cigar (which went on to be named Cigar Aficionado’s No. 10 Cigar of 2019), the 180th is a collaboration between Fernandez and Rafael Nodal, vice president of product capability for Tabacalera USA, Altadis U.S.A.’s parent company. The 175th and 180th anniversary are the same Churchill size but Nodal tells Cigar Aficionado that the blends are different.

One of the highlights of this all-Nicaraguan cigar is its medio tiempo wrapper that Nodal says was grown from a hybrid seed. Medio tiempo is a classification of small leaves that sometimes grow on the very top of a tobacco plant, and are valued for their strength. 

Each H. Upmann 180th Anniversary has a suggested retail price of $22.50 per cigar, and comes packaged in 10-count boxes. Only 5,000 boxes are being produced.

Monday will also see the release of an anniversary humidor containing 50 H. Upmann 180th Anniversary Toros (6 by 50). The humidors are priced at $1,500 apiece with a production run of only 180 units.