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Pledge Purple

By Perez Carillo

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.