原文2018年11月刊登在CA杂志官网

2017年夏季的美国IPCPR贸易展上，通用雪茄公司推出了高希霸的幽灵（Spectre）系列，零售价高达每支90美元。2018年11月，这款产品终于要向零售商发货了。

这款雪茄使用的烟叶产自五个国家，不少烟叶是在桶里发酵的，有的甚至发酵时间很长。

茄衣是厄瓜多尔种植的苏门答腊种子烟叶，取自烟草植株的上部。茄芯烟叶里主要是多米尼加种植的古巴皮洛托（Piloto Cubano）烟叶。

通用雪茄公司本身的陈年烟草库存很多，他们透露这款古巴皮洛托烟叶就是1995年收获的烟叶，已经发酵23年了。这款雪茄使用的尼加拉瓜烟叶是在埃斯特利地区种植的，在西班牙雪莉酒桶里发酵的。而雪茄使用的洪都拉斯烟叶，则来自三个产地：圣奥古斯汀、贾马斯兰特、拉恩特拉达（La Entrada）。

幽灵只有一个尺寸，54环径，7.25英寸。雪茄装在圆形的银色包装盒里，打开盒子，内盖是红色。每一支雪茄装在独立的铝管里。所有雪茄都是在多米尼加共和国生产的。Xirolma Céspedes、Ruben Dario Perez（鲁本·达里奥·佩雷斯），这一对卷茄师组合，一个负责扎束，一个负责卷制。他们从事雪茄制作工作已经几十年了。

这一次推出180盒，每一盒售价是900美元。

If you‘re curious about what General Cigar’s most expensive Cohiba tastes like, you can find out this week, as the Cohiba Spectre is shipping on Wednesday. Introduced at last summer’s IPCPR trade show, the Spectre has a suggested retail price of $90 per cigar. 

The smoke is made with eight types of tobacco from five countries, and many of the leaves are aged in barrels—some for a very long time.

The Ecuadoran Sumatra wrappers were culled from high primings (the upper section of tobacco plant), and the core of the filler blend is Dominican Piloto Cubano aged in tercios. 

General has considerable stocks of aged tobacco, and says those Piloto Cubano leaves are from the 1995 crop, making them 23 years old. The Nicaraguan tobacco was grown in Estelí and aged in Spanish Sherry barrels, while the Spectre’s Honduran leaves are from various regions and various vintages (San Agustín, Jamastran and La Entrada). 

Cohiba Spectre comes in one size—7 1/4 inches by 54 ring gauge—and is packed in eye-catching, silver-and-red circular boxes, each holding 10 cigars. All of the cigars are made in the Dominican Republic by one team, cigar roller Xirolma Céspedes and buncher Ruben Dario Perez, who have been making cigars for decades. 

The entire production run is 180 boxes, or 1,800 cigars, although General said that a few more boxes were produced to accommodate retailers after the initial run sold out at the IPCPR. Boxes retail for $900.