Davidoff Year of The Snake Limited Edition 2025 Lancero

Description

The Year of the Snake Limited Edition 2025 heralds a new beginning in Davidoff’s annual Chinese New Year celebrations. The exclusive release introduces a number of novelties to honour the Year of the Snake, crafted to captivate and delight the most discerning aficionados.

Graceful and elegant on the outside, the Snake is known for its passionate and energetic nature. The Snake embraces the vibrant energy of yellow in 2025, enhancing its intuition for unparalleled success. The balance of the Snake’s powerful personality is reflected in the cigar’s blend, format and taste. As you glide through the smooth and dynamic flavours of lemon, leather and coffee, wrapped in an intriguing creaminess, the Snake’s inspiring character is revealed with every puff.

The long and slender lancero format pays homage to the shape of a snake. Its taste profile is quite unusual and a novelty for a Davidoff cigar; with flavours of lemon, leather and coffee, the limited-edition cigar is ideal to mark the special occasion of Lunar New Year. The Dominican San Vicente and the Mexican Negro San Andres filler tobaccos, both known to stimulate the areas on the palate responsible for sour and salty sensations, drive the fresh and lemony notes without ever overpowering the palate.

Davidoff Year of The Snake Limited Edition 2025 Lancero is a definite must-have for aficionados who want to acquire the first cigar of Davidoff’s new cycle of products around the Chinese zodiac. Size: Lancero 7 x 43. Medium-bodied.

• Wrapper: Ecuador
• Binder: Ecuador
• Filler: Dominican Republic, Mexico

Lucky Pairings for Year of the Snake Cigars

Yellow is one of the Snake’s lucky colours, so those born in the Year of the Snake are advised to incorporate the colour into their daily lives. With its fruity notes, the Year of the Snake cigar is the perfect accompaniment to yellow drinks.

Yellow Bird Cocktail

This refreshing drink, made with rum, herbs and orange liquor, lime juice and orange juice, pairs well with the lemony notes at the start of the cigar. The leather and coffee flavours that make an appearance in the second and the last third also complement the citrus and fruit notes of the cocktail.

Lemon Ginger Tea

In this combination, the lemon, leather and coffee notes of the cigar complement the refreshing taste of a tea made with lemon, fresh ginger, hot water and honey. The ginger in the tea continuously cleanses the palate for unique stimulation.

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.