Description
Davidoff Escurio 10th Anniversary Limited Edition: This Is Brazil. And Beyond.
Ten years ago, to the delight of aficionados everywhere, the very first iconic, exotic Escurio cigar took to the stage. A cigar with a rhythm all its own. Now we have revitalised that blend as only we could. Taking aged Brazilian tobacco found nowhere else on the planet and interweaving it with the mellow notes of our signature creaminess.
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Davidoff’s Escurio line through pioneering and visionary craftsmanship: only Davidoff is able to create a blend using Brazilian and Dominican tobaccos with a total age of 45 years thanks to its large inventory. The limited-edition cigar, with one Dominican filler tobacco aged in whisky casks, provides sweet vanilla flavours, complementing the spicy Brazilian tobaccos. Limited to 15,750 boxes worldwide.
A smooth samba of a cigar from start to finish, the limited gran toro cigar combines tobaccos from the Brazilian Bahia region and the Dominican Republic. The rare Brazilian tobaccos showcase the region’s uniqueness: Bahia is characterised by a humid and salty environment due to its proximity to the sea. This in addition to harsher and irregular rainfall yields tobacco that is more robust and spicy in taste. In contrast, the Dominican tobaccos add a signature smoothness and creaminess, cultivated in regions with consistent and controlled fresh water and balanced weather.
The gran toro’s wrapper, binder and filler tobaccos in the blend were aged for a combined 45 years. In addition, one of the Dominican filler tobaccos was fermented in a bourbon cask, which adds sweetness and extra depth to the cigar.
Together, the tobaccos create a dynamic play of taste, which is enhanced by the bigger 56 ring gauge of the gran toro – this allows the Brazilian and Dominican filler tobaccos to take centre stage.
A samba of taste with medium intensity and a full body. Size: Gran Toro 6 x 56.
- Wrapper: Ecuador
- Binder: Brazil
- Filler: Brazil, Dominican Republic
Cigar Pairing With A Bourbon Old Fashioned
Vanilla Meets Cappuccino Notes
The choice of bourbon adds a smooth, slightly sweeter note to the cocktail, which pairs perfectly with the cigar’s flavours of leather and bittersweet chocolate. Additional notes of vanilla from the bourbon whiskey and the bourbon cask aged tobacco round off the experience.
Mocktail Cigar Pairing With A Old Fashioned
A Samba Of Vanilla And Cappuccino
This non-alcoholic drink combines cold brew coffee with simple syrup and orange bitters, served over ice and garnished with an orange slice. The cigar’s initial cappuccino notes are a perfect match for the cold Old Fashioned.
About Davidoff Cigars
Davidoff is a Swiss premium brand of cigars, cigarettes and smoker’s accessories. The Davidoff cigarette brand has been owned by Imperial Brands after purchasing it in 2006. The non-cigarette portion of the Davidoff tobacco brand is owned by Oettinger Davidoff AG, which is based in Basel, Switzerland.
Oettinger Davidoff AG manufactures cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobaccos and smoker’s accessories under the brands Davidoff, Camacho and Zino Platinum. The cigars are produced in the Dominican Republic and Honduras, and tobacco is sourced from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras and the United States of America.
The brand name Davidoff originates from the surname of its Switzerland-Jewish-born founder, Zino Davidoff (born Sussele-Meier Davidoff; 1906, Novhorod-Siverskyi – 1994, Geneva), who ran a tobacco specialist shop in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1926 to 1994. He was known as the “King of Cigars”.
After the Second World War, Zino Davidoff decided to acquire a licence to produce his own series of cigars. As he had discerning international customers, he named the various formats of this “Château” cigar series after famous Bordeaux vineyard estates. The first in the series was the “Château Latour” in 1946.
In 1967, Zino Davidoff was approached by Cubatabaco, Cuba’s state tobacco monopoly, about creating a line of cigars carrying the “Davidoff” name. The cigars were rolled in the newly established El Laguito factory in Havana, which had been established to roll Cuban President Fidel Castro’s own personal cigars, named Cohíba.
In 1968, the first cigars carrying the name “Davidoff” were released. The first formats were the No. 1, the No. 2 and the Ambassadrice. In 1970, Oettinger AG, located in Basel, Switzerland, acquired the rights to the Davidoff trademark.
In 1971, the Davidoff “Mini Cigarillos” (short fillers made of 100% tobacco) and, in 1972, the first Davidoff pipe tobaccos were released. As of 1975, the cigars of the Château series were delivered in cabinets bearing the Davidoff logo.
In 1976, the “Mille Series” and, in 1977, the “Dom Pérignon” cigar, named after the champagne, were released. In 1986, a limited release of “Anniversario” cigars were produced, to celebrate Zino Davidoff’s 80th birthday.
The Zino Davidoff Group was spun out of Davidoff in 1980 to exclusively market non-tobacco luxury goods such as watches, leather goods, pens, fragrances, eyewear, coffee, and cognac. Public health researchers have suggested that this was in order to engage in trademark diversification (also known as “brand stretching”) to promote the tobacco products, because it allows for advertising the brand in the face of restrictions on the direct promotion of tobacco products.
After numerous disputes over quality and ownership rights, Zino Davidoff and Cubatabaco decided to end their relationship. Leading up to this, in August 1989, Zino had publicly burned over one hundred thousand cigars that he had deemed of low quality and unfit to sell. All Davidoff products produced in Cuba were officially discontinued in 1991. An agreement was signed that no more Davidoff cigars from Cuba would be sold.
In 1990, after discontinuing Cuban-made products, Davidoff started to produce cigars in the Dominican Republic. After numerous test runs, Zino Davidoff found a partner in the local producer “Tabadom”, owned by Hendrik Kelner.
In 1991, the first Dominican-made Davidoff cigars were launched, continuing the product lines and cigar formats of their Cuban predecessors. With the move to the Dominican Republic, the Château series was renamed “Grand Cru”, and the individual formats were numbered instead of carrying the names of vineyard estates.
In 1991, the limited release called “Aniversario” became an ongoing cigar series, called the “Aniversario” series. In 1992, the “Special” cigar series was released, with the format “Special R” as the first product. In 1994, the 87-year-old Zino Davidoff died in Geneva, Switzerland.
