Description
The Davidoff Maduro line offers a full-bodied taste experience of medium intensity. Composed of tobaccos from Ecuador, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, this blend presents a stimulation typical for a true Maduro cigar. Especially the remarkable influence of the Ecuadorian wrapper makes for a sweet and creamy experience and a sophisticated cigar with notes of dark chocolate, honey and roasted nuts.
A true Maduro is made of time. The time spent fermenting. The time spent ageing. The Davidoff Maduro refines and redefines what a Maduro is and can be. 16 months of fermentation and 2 years of ageing of the special Ecuadorian wrapper resulted in a beautiful cigar that is sweeter, more sophisticated, and, most importantly, carries more flavour.
The Toro with its generous ring gauge is the largest cigar of the Davidoff Maduro line. Its blend of tobaccos from Ecuador, Mexico and the Dominican Republic provides a flavour experience worthy of a true Maduro cigar. Notably distinctive is the prominent impact of the Ecuadorian wrapper, creating a medium-intense, sweet and creamy full-bodied palate stimulation with notes of dark chocolate, honey and roasted nuts. Size: Toro 6 x 54.
- Wrapper: Ecuador
- Binder: Mexico
- Filler: Dominican Republic
Enhanced Cigar Pairing
With Ice Wine
This pairing focuses on the sweetness of both the cigar and the ice wine. The honey and dried fruit notes of a sweet wine are perfectly complemented by the notes of honey, dark chocolate and roasted nuts of the Davidoff Maduro cigar.
With Lapsang Souchong Tea
Dry-smoked over pinewood fire, this black tea delights with notes of paprika, dried longan and wood smoke. These notes contrast pleasantly with the cigar’s aromas of dark chocolate, honey and roasted nuts. This heterogeneous pairing is an entertaining symphony for the senses.
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.
