每个雪茄客都知道好友（Hoyo de Monterrey）的美食家二号（Epicure No. 2），这是雪茄行业名气最大的罗布图尺寸雪茄之一。这个系列还有美食家一号，更长，口径稍细。如今古巴的好友的美食家系列有了新成员，美食家三号。上周六，这款新品在西班牙揭幕。

9月23日晚，西班牙马德里郊外的沙漠城植物园（Desert City botanical garden）。一场名为美食家花园（El Jardín de Epicure）的雪茄宴会上，400多名雪茄爱好者在现场表演和美食的陪伴下，成为第一批品尝这个新品雪茄的人。美食家三号，54环径，4.875英寸，比力高（belicoso）造型。这种尺寸的比力高在古巴雪茄厂里被称为“原创”（Originales）。

美食家三号装在滑盖盒中，每盒25支。预计本周将在西班牙各地的雪茄店上架，每支售价20欧元，折合21.25美元。西班牙是第一个收到美食家三号配货的国家，这款新品未来几个月会陆续配货到世界各地。

首发仪式是哈伯纳斯公司在西班牙地区的授权经销商Tabacalera S.L.U.组织的，雪茄爱好者团体古巴热情俱乐部（Club Pasión Habanos）协助组织。这不是西班牙第一次举办古巴新品的首发仪式。之前，蒙特的宽埃德蒙多（Wide Edmundo）、帕特加斯的传奇（Legado）、高希霸的新奇（Novedosos）也都是在西班牙举行的首发仪式。

美食家三号是好友品牌2008年发布美食家系列以来，第一次增加新款。这支新品将美食家系列常规产品线的尺寸增加到了四款。

Everyone knows the Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2, one of the cigar world’s most famous robustos. And we’re certain you’ve heard of the Epicure No. 1, which is a little longer and a little slimmer. But now there’s a new number in Cuba’s Hoyo line, the No. 3, and it was unveiled on Saturday night in Spain.

It was an evening of Cuban cigars, live performances and fine food at the Desert City botanical garden and nursery just outside of Madrid in Spain on September 23rd. In a cigar banquet dubbed “Epicure’s Garden” or El Jardín de Epicure, more than 400 cigar fans were among the first to try the new Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 3, a belicoso that measures 4 7/8 inches long by 54 ring gauge. This particular belicoso format is referred to as Originales in Cuban cigar factories. 

The cigars, which come in slide-lid cabinets of 25, are expected to appear in shops throughout Spain this week where they will retail for 20 euros each (about $21.25). Although Spain is the first country to receive the Epicure No. 3, shipments of the new smokes should arrive around the world in the coming months. There is no official word as to when the other countries will receive their allocations or in what order.

The event was organized by enthusiast group Club Pasión Habanos and Tabacalera S.L.U., Spain’s distributor of Cuban cigars. This wouldn’t be the first time that a new cigar got its premiere party in Spain. Previous cigars like the Montecristo Wide Edmundo, Partagás Legado and Cohiba Novedosos were also unveiled in the Iberian nation.  

The No. 3 is the newest addition to the regular-production Hoyo Epicure Series since the Epicure Especial was released in 2008. Not counting La Casa del Habano exclusive cigars and other limited editions, the new cigar brings Hoyo’s Epicure series to four sizes.

For a rating of Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 3, see an upcoming issue of Cigar Insider.