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Pledge of Allegiance 2026

By Perez Carillo

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.