过去这段时间蒂姆·奥兹格纳（Tim Ozgener）一直在忙于宣传他的奥兹格纳家族雪茄公司和产品，2022年推出产品后，他经常听到的一个消费者反馈就是需要一款口味更温和的雪茄。他公司旗下的博斯普鲁斯海峡系列（Bosphorus）口味是中等到浓郁，去年推出的Aramas口味甚至更加强烈。考虑到市场的反馈，他计划推出一个新的系列，口味相对温和，可以满足那些想要轻柔口味的雪茄爱好者。
这个新系列名为Firsat，土耳其语的意思是“机会”，奥兹格纳说这是纪念家族的根源。
雪茄的茄衣是厄瓜多尔种植的康涅狄格种子烟叶，位于烟草植株的上层，这款茄衣让雪茄看起来有一种青铜色。茄套是厄瓜多尔种植的哈瓦那种子烟叶，茄芯是尼加拉瓜的奥梅特佩（Ometepe）火山岛种植的烟叶，这种烟叶带有甜味。
这个新系列的雪茄是在多米尼加共和国的圣地亚哥生产的，委托埃内斯托·佩雷斯·卡里略（Ernesto Perez-Carrillo）的卡里略之家（ Casa Carrillo）雪茄厂生产的，这家雪茄厂以前叫联盟雪茄厂（Tabacalera La Alianza）。
雪茄是轻微压制，不像博斯普鲁斯海峡系列的盒压造型，而Aramas是圆柱形。
Firsat系列有四个尺寸。以雪茄环径来命名，F52，52环径，5英寸。F55，55环径，5.5英寸。F60，60华景，6英寸。F54，54环径，7英寸，双皇冠型号。这个双皇冠型号是其他两个系列没有的型号。奥兹格纳说，这个型号让他想到以前家族还拥有CAO雪茄品牌的时候，CAO的金色系列有一款双皇冠，54环径，7英寸，味道好极了。
Firsat系列的售价从每支12美元到14美元不等，将在美国PCA贸易展亮相，奥兹格纳预计这个新系列的雪茄4月份可以发货。
Tim Ozgener has been hitting the road to meet with cigar smokers, spreading the word about his Ozgener Family Cigars, which hit the market in 2022. One of the questions he’s been hearing quite a bit is a request for a milder cigar. His Bosphorus line is rather robust, medium to medium-full in body. His Aramas release is perhaps a touch stronger. Taking the consumer feedback to heart, he’s now ready to come out with a new line, aimed at cigar lovers looking for something lighter.
“A lot of people are asking for a mild to medium-bodied cigar,” Ozgener says. “We want to target that category.”
That new smoke is called Firsat, which means “opportunity” in Turkish, a nod to Ozgener’s roots. “Its base filler is Ometepe,” says Ozgener, referring to the sweet leaf grown on the volcanic island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. The entire filler blend is Nicaraguan, the binder is Ecuador Habana, and the wrapper leaf is a Connecticut seed grown in Ecuador. It’s a high-priming leaf, Ozgener says, giving the cigar a bronze shade.
The cigars are rolled at Ernesto Perez-Carrillo’s Casa Carrillo (formerly Tabacalera La Alianza) in Santiago, Dominican Republic, and they have a shape that’s a bit different from Ozgener’s other smokes. “It’s a soft press,” he says, unlike Bosphorus, which is box pressed, and Aramas, which is round. “It’s more of a subtle press,” he says.
Firsat has a size that you won’t find in Ozgener’s other lines, a double corona. He wanted it because it reminds him of a milder blend from when he and his family owned the CAO brand. “Back when we had CAO Gold,” he says, “we found the double corona size, 7 by 54, tasted really good.”
Firsat will come in four sizes, all of them named for the thickness of the cigar. There is F52, which is 5 inches long by 52 ring gauge; F55, 5 1/2 by 55; F60, 6 by 60 and the double corona, named F54, which is 7 inches long.
Prices for Firsat will be around $12 to $14 per smoke. They will be on display at the PCA trade show and Ozgener hopes to have them in cigar shops by April.
