20多年來，通用雪茄公司發布了很多版本的潘趣珍稀科羅霍系列產品，今年，該公司發布了一款名為“貴族”的新款，外形類似棒球棍。

這個新品是基于一個舊款的改良，舊款最初是為抽雪茄的體育界傳奇人物NBA教練奧爾巴赫（ Red Auerbach）以及匹茲堡橄欖球隊的老板亞瑟.約瑟夫.魯尼（Art Rooney ）設計的。

當時非古的潘趣品牌屬于維拉宗公司（Villazon & Co. ）所有，1966年通用雪茄公司收購了維拉宗公司。

雪茄類似路易斯維爾·斯拉格的棒球棍，呈錐形。最粗的地方是54環徑，長6.125英寸。茄衣是厄瓜多爾蘇門答臘煙葉，茄套是康涅狄格煙葉，茄芯是尼加拉瓜、洪都拉斯、多米尼加的混合煙葉。

這款雪茄是在洪都拉斯的HATSA雪茄廠生產，目前在美國各地的雪茄店都已經開售。建議零售價是每支稅前9.99美元。每盒20支包裝。

潘趣的高級品牌經理埃德·拉赫曼（Ed Lahmann）說，這款“貴族”的尺寸幾乎是一個被遺忘的尺寸。我們在回顧潘趣品牌的檔案時，發現這個尺寸已經幾十年沒有生產過。在工廠進一步查找后發現了80個這種特殊尺寸的模具，這正是我們制作限量版雪茄需要的。

通用雪茄公司是歐洲斯堪的納維亞煙草集團的子公司。

附參考原文：

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 According to company lore, the new Aristocrat is based on an old shape that was originally made for cigar-smoking sports legends Red Auerbach and Art Rooney back when the Punch brand was owned by Villazon & Co. (General Cigar acquired Villazon in 1996.)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.