精选烟草公司发布了阿方索陈年产品线的最新版本，这个系列被称为阿方索大精选（Alfonso Gran Selección），这条产品线保留了原始烟叶混合的一些核心特征，与上一代产品的口味形成更为激进的对比。这个产品线预计7月份参加美国PCA贸易展，秋季可以向零售商发货。

去年的阿方索陈年产品线使用的是浅色的厄瓜多尔康涅狄格茄衣，今年的产品线使用的是深色、口味更浓郁的厄瓜多尔哈瓦那茄衣，茄套是秘鲁烟叶，茄芯是多米尼加、尼加拉瓜混合烟叶。这样的烟叶组合是为了让这条新产品线的口味达到中等到浓郁强度。

新产品线有五个尺寸。Exclusivos（独家），54环径，6英寸。Preciosos（珍贵），40环径，7.5英寸。Estelares（星星），54环径，5.5英寸。Enormes（巨大），60环径，6.5英寸。Grandiosos（伟大），50环径，在美国的售价从每支30美元到50美元不等。每盒都是25支装。雪茄限量发行，每个尺寸只销售200盒。

这个产品线的出品方是精选烟草公司，该公司以出品阿塔贝（Atabey）、拜伦（Byron）等品牌而闻名。根据该公司老板纳尔逊·阿方索介绍，这个产品线在卷制后已经发酵了五年，并且是在雪松木内衬的发酵房里经历不同湿度水平。和精选烟草公司的其他雪茄不一样，这款阿方索大精选产品线还在铺有法国橡木的发酵房里经历了额外发酵。

雪茄是在哥斯达黎加（Costa Rica）的圣地亚哥德普里思卡尔（Santiago de Puriscal）的哥斯达黎加雪茄厂卷制的，经销商是总部位于美国新罕布什尔州的联合烟草公司。

Selected Tobacco is releasing a darker sequel to last year’s Alfonso Añejo line. Called the Alfonso Gran Selección, the new series is intended to offer a bolder contrast to its predecessor while maintaining some of the core characteristics of the original blend. The Gran Selección will be available in five sizes and is set to debut at the Premium Cigar Association trade show this July in Las Vegas with an expected shipping date in the fall. 

The original Alfonso Añejo line was covered in a light Ecuadoran Connecticut wrapper, but the new Gran Selección is made with a dark, richer Ecuadoran Habano wrapper along with a Peruvian binder that holds together Dominican and Nicaraguan filler, all for a blend intended to be medium-to-full-bodied in strength. 

The five sizes of the Gran Selección line are: Exclusivos, measuring 6 inches by 54 ring gauge; Preciosos, at 7 1/2 by 40; Estelares, 5 1/2 by 54; Enormes, 6 1/2 by 60; and Grandiosos, 8 by 50. Suggested retail prices will range from $30 to $50 per cigar.

The new cigars come from Nelson Alfonso of Selected Tobacco, known for brands such as Atabey and Byron. According to Selected Tobacco, the Gran Selección line was aged five years after rolling, primarily in cedar-lined rooms at varying humidity levels. But unlike most brands from Selected, these smokes underwent an additional aging step in rooms lined with French oak, as was also done for the Alfonso Añejo and Byron 1850 lines.

The new smokes are made at the Tabacos de Costa Rica factory in Santiago de Puriscal, Costa Rica and are distributed by New Hampshire-based United Cigars. Production is limited to 5,000 cigars per size, or 200 25-count boxes per vitola.