曾经在大卫杜夫公司担任生产和质量控制主管的烟草老兵埃拉迪奥·迪亚兹从50岁就开始自己研究不寻常的烟叶混合配方，卷制雪茄纪念自己的生日。2022年，他从大卫杜夫公司辞职，自己在多米尼加共和国创建了迪亚兹卡布雷拉雪茄厂。今年，是迪亚兹的71岁生日，他再次发布了一款包含你可能未听说过的烟草的雪茄。

这款周年纪念版雪茄的茄衣是厄瓜多尔种植的科罗霍99烟叶，茄套是墨西哥圣安德雷斯烟叶，茄芯烟叶包含多种烟叶，有点复杂。有多米尼加种植的科罗霍烟叶，有多米尼加的哈瓦那92烟叶，还有一些在橡木桶发酵过的HVA（Havana Vuelta Arriba）烟叶。

茄芯烟叶里还使用了多米尼加共和国的一款不常使用的烟叶。这个地区叫圣胡安德拉·马瓜纳和拉斯马塔斯·德·法尔凡（San Juan de la Maguana and Las Matas de Farfán），这里位于多米尼加共和国的岛屿中心，在圣地亚哥的西南部，附近还有一个名为MAO的优质烟叶产区。海拔450米，土壤的PH值高于多米尼加的北部地区。

迪亚兹认为，海拔高的地方，种植出来烟叶强劲，烟雾越浓。20世纪70年代农民曾经在这里种植烟叶，但由于种植成本较高，政府没有补贴，农民后来转而种植其他作物。2020年开始，政府再次提供补贴，支持农民种植烟草。

埃拉迪奥·迪亚兹71周年只有一个尺寸，54环径，6英寸，公牛品型。每盒10支装，每盒250美元，折合每支25美元。一共生产2000盒。雪茄由美国的阿朗戈雪茄公司（Arango Cigar Co.）经销，预计10月第一周运往零售商。

Tobacco veteran Eladio Diaz has been making a non-commercial blend to celebrate his birthday ever since he was 50 years old. He’s best known for his tenure as head of production and quality control for Davidoff of Geneva before going out on his own in 2022. This year, he turned 71 and to celebrate, he’s making his birthday blend available to the public—but it contains tobacco from a region you’ve probably never heard of before.  

Made in the Dominican Republic at Diaz’s Tabacalera Diaz Cabrera (TDC) factory, the anniversary cigar consists of an Ecuadoran Corojo ’99 wrapper, Mexican San Andrés binder and a somewhat complicated filler blend. There’s Dominican Corojo, Dominican Habano ’92, and some barrel-aged Havana Vuelta Arriba (HVA). But the filler blend also includes a leaf from an area in the Dominican Republic not commonly used by cigarmakers. 

Diaz has turned to San Juan de la Maguana and Las Matas de Farfán for an alternative tobacco appellation. It’s an area southwest of Santiago and Mao (where much of the tobacco for premium cigars is grown) and it’s located closer to the Haitian border in the center of the island. According to Diaz, the fields are 450 meters above sea level causing the pH levels of the soil to be higher than the tobacco farms in the northern part of the country. He believes the higher altitude results in stronger tobacco that produces a creamier smoke. Tobacco, Diaz says, used to be grown here in the 1970s, but farmers changed to other crops due to the high cost and lack of government funding. Support from the government returned in 2020.

The Eladio Diaz 71 Aniversario cigars are made in only one size, a Toro measuring 6 inches by 54 ring gauge. They come in 10-count boxes (only 2,000 boxes are being released) and retail for $250 per box, or $25 per cigar. Distributed by Arango Cigar Co., the new smokes are expected ship to retailers the first week of October.