20多年来，通用雪茄公司发布了很多版本的潘趣珍稀科罗霍系列产品，今年，该公司发布了一款名为“贵族”的新款，外形类似棒球棍。

这个新品是基于一个旧款的改良，旧款最初是为抽雪茄的体育界传奇人物NBA教练奥尔巴赫（ Red Auerbach）以及匹兹堡橄榄球队的老板亚瑟.约瑟夫.鲁尼（Art Rooney ）设计的。

当时非古的潘趣品牌属于维拉宗公司（Villazon & Co. ）所有，1966年通用雪茄公司收购了维拉宗公司。

雪茄类似路易斯维尔·斯拉格的棒球棍，呈锥形。最粗的地方是54环径，长6.125英寸。茄衣是厄瓜多尔苏门答腊烟叶，茄套是康涅狄格烟叶，茄芯是尼加拉瓜、洪都拉斯、多米尼加的混合烟叶。

这款雪茄是在洪都拉斯的HATSA雪茄厂生产，目前在美国各地的雪茄店都已经开售。建议零售价是每支税前9.99美元。每盒20支包装。

潘趣的高级品牌经理埃德·拉赫曼（Ed Lahmann）说，这款“贵族”的尺寸几乎是一个被遗忘的尺寸。我们在回顾潘趣品牌的档案时，发现这个尺寸已经几十年没有生产过。在工厂进一步查找后发现了80个这种特殊尺寸的模具，这正是我们制作限量版雪茄需要的。

通用雪茄公司是欧洲斯堪的纳维亚烟草集团的子公司。

附参考原文：

For more than two decades, General Cigar Co. has released limited annual runs of its Punch Rare Corojo series, and this year, the company resurrected a size that’s meant to resemble a baseball bat. According to company lore, the new Aristocrat is based on an old shape that was originally made for cigar-smoking sports legends Red Auerbach and Art Rooney back when the Punch brand was owned by Villazon & Co. (General Cigar acquired Villazon in 1996.)

Tapered like a Louisville Slugger, the shapely figurado measures 6 1/8 inches long by 54 ring gauge at its fattest point. Its Ecuador Sumatra-seed wrapper covers a Connecticut broadleaf binder that holds together a blend of Nicaraguan, Honduran and Dominican tobacco.

The Punch Rare Corojo Aristocrat is made in Honduras at the HATSA factory, and is now available at tobacconists across the United States, with a suggested retail price of $9.99 per cigar. Aristocrats come in 20-count boxes. 

“The Aristocrat size was almost a forgotten size,” says Ed Lahmann, senior brand manager for Punch. “Lucky for us, as we were looking back in the archives of Punch, we learned that this size hadn’t been made in decades. Further digging in the factory turned up 80 molds for this special size which is just what we needed for a limited-edition smoke.”

General Cigar Co. is a subsidiary of Europe’s Scandinavian Tobacco Group.