In 1996 a young Christian Eiroa, still working alongside his father Julio, blended the first Honduran-made Saint Luis Rey for Max Rohr Imports. The brand changed hands twice in the years that followed, ending up with Altadis, and Eiroa went on to build CLE, Asylum, and the Eiroa line out of his El Aladino factory in Danlí. Thirty years later Altadis came back to him, and the result is a cigar that reaches back toward the original blend while using tobaccos Eiroa has spent the past decade developing on his Colombian farm. The wrapper is Colombian Pinareño, a Cuban seed variety Eiroa has been growing in Colombia alongside his Honduran operations. The binder is Honduran Corojo from the Jamastran Valley, and the filler combines Corojo and Pinareño leaf. Four sizes, all in 25-count cabinet boxes, distributed exclusively through brick and mortar retailers. Medium to full in body. Made at Fabrica de Puros Aladino S.A. in Danlí, Honduras.

Casa Carrillo launched the Pledge of Allegiance series in 2023 as an annual tribute to the American Dream, and the 2026 release carries extra weight as it lands alongside the country's 250th anniversary. EPC Chief Operating Officer Selim Hanono coined the name as a mashup of two earlier Carrillo lines, Pledge and Allegiance, though the blend shares nothing with either one and leans instead on American grown tobacco. Ernesto Perez Carrillo, whose family arrived from Cuba and built one of the most decorated names in the modern cigar industry, ties the release directly to his own journey in the announcement. The blend uses a dark Connecticut Habano wrapper over an Ecuadorian Connecticut binder, with Nicaraguan filler drawn from Condega, Jalapa, and Estelí. Single Toro size, 6x54, in boxes of ten. Limited to 1,776 numbered boxes, a reference to the year of American independence. Medium to full in body. Made at Tabacalera La Alianza in the Dominican Republic.

When the original Pledge Prequel claimed Cigar Aficionado's Cigar of the Year in 2020 with a near perfect 98 rating, Ernesto Perez Carrillo had the foresight to set aside a portion of that crop's wrapper leaves rather than use them all. The Connecticut Havana seed leaf, grown in the Connecticut River Valley and aged with Carrillo's partners Dunn and Foster, has now spent nearly a decade maturing. The Pledge Purple is the result, built around that same wrapper from the same harvest, with an entirely new interior blend underneath it. The wrapper is the decade aged Connecticut Havana seed leaf, over a Mexican binder, with Nicaraguan filler from Estelí, Condega, and Ometepe. Single Toro size, 6x54, limited to 3,500 boxes of ten. Full in body. Made at Casa Carrillo's factory in the Dominican Republic.