雪茄和黑帮电影有时候可以齐头并进，演员查兹·帕尔明特里（Chazz Palminteri）当然这样认为，他编写了剧本，主演了黑手党题材电影《布朗克斯的故事》。在2023年他推出了同名品牌雪茄。现在，帕尔明特里推出了一款新的限量版雪茄，以他曾经扮演过的角色，犯罪头目桑尼的名字命名。
这款Sonny只有一个尺寸，54环径，6.5英寸，盒压造型。早些的新闻报道里报告的尺寸是6英寸，有所调整。Sonny比前一款产品卡洛杰罗（Calogero）调配的烟叶口味要浓郁。茄衣使用了墨西哥圣安德烈斯马杜罗烟叶，茄套是多米尼加烟叶，茄芯是尼加拉瓜、多米尼加的混合烟叶。
雪茄是每盒12支，每支售价25美元。赞德·格雷格进口贸易公司（ Zander-Greg Imports）负责经销，他们称这款桑尼产品未来也可能会发展成一个常规系列。
2023年发布卡洛杰罗（Calogero）时，也是单一尺寸的限量版产品，后来演变成常规系列产品。
布朗克斯故事系列雪茄是查兹·帕尔明特里与埃皮克雪茄公司的迪恩·帕森斯（Dean Parsons），以及位于纽约布朗克斯的格兰德之家烟草公司（ La Casa Grande Cigars）的保罗 迪西尔维奥（Paul DiSilvio）合作的。
Cigars and mob movies can sometimes go hand in hand. Actor Chazz Palminteri certainly thinks so. He wrote both the screenplay and starred in the Mafia film A Bronx Tale, and released his first brand of the same name in 2023. Now, Palminteri has a new limited-edition cigar named after his character: the charismatic yet fatalistic crime boss Sonny. The new ‘A Bronx Tale’ Sonny by Epic Cigars was expected to hit the market in the spring, but began shipping to retailers last week.
Sonny is available in one size, a box-pressed toro measuring 6 1/2 inches by 54 ring gauge (previous reporting had the dimensions as 6 by 54). Sonny follows up ‘A Bronx Tale’ Calogero, which was named after the film’s protagonist. Like their screen counterparts, Sonny is bolder than Calogero, with a full-bodied blend incorporating a dark, Mexican San Andrés maduro wrapper with a Dominican binder and Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers. It has a suggested retail price of $25 apiece.
Calogero debuted in 2023 as a single limited-edition size and was later expanded into a regular-production line. According to Zander-Greg Imports, which distributes the cigars, Sonny is also intended to become a full line.
‘A Bronx Tale’ Sonny is produced in collaboration with Dean Parsons of Epic, and Paul DiSilvio of La Casa Grande Cigars, a small rolling operation in the Bronx, New York. (You can read all about it in the new issue of Cigar Aficionado.) The cigar is made in the Dominican Republic at the Charles Fairmorn factory, and the Sonny size is limited to 1,000 boxes of 12.
