安達盧西亞公牛（Andalusian Bul）是多米尼加之花雪茄公司（ La Flor Dominicana）最受關注的一款產品，曾經獲得2016年《雪茄愛好者》雜志的年度冠軍，目前在零售門店已經鮮見蹤跡。過去這款產品只有一個尺寸。如今，多米尼加之花將發布一款較小的新尺寸，并以非傳統的方式出售，并且將更難買到。

新款名為“金牛”（The Golden Bull），42環徑，6.25英寸，朗斯代爾型號，煙葉混合成分和安達盧西亞公牛完全相同。安達盧西亞公牛最粗的地方達到了64環徑，長6.5英寸。

這款金牛不會在門店銷售。多米尼加之花公司將通過加拿大的一家數字驗證公司UREEQA發行NFT（非同質化代幣），在拍賣中獲得NFT的客人可以購買這些新品雪茄。

多米尼加之花計劃發行7個NFT，沒有固定價格，通過拍賣競得。持有金牛NFT的客人每月最多可以購買70支金牛雪茄。多米尼加之花的老板戈麥斯說，每盒14支包裝，所以最多可以購買五盒。

NFT是一種載有藝術品或者音樂內容的數字資產，雖然這種形式問世了好幾年了，但是市場熱度有增無減。福布斯報告稱，過去五年里，NFT的消費金額已經達到1.74億美元。一些人會購買NFT作為投資。

多米尼加之花公司表示，公司將確保只有這七個持有NFT的可以買到金牛雪茄。如果NFT的持有人未來轉讓這個數字資產，那么購買金牛雪茄的權利也隨之轉讓。

競拍獲得NFT的七位買家每人將獲得一個雪茄保濕盒，里面裝了50支金牛雪茄。多米尼加之花公司之前在Procigar的慈善拍賣會上曾經拍賣過類似的一個雪茄盒，不過那個雪茄盒更大，可以容納100支雪茄。當時以3.2萬美元的價格拍出。戈麥斯告訴記者，這是金牛雪茄唯一一次的社會商業銷售。

拍賣將在7月中旬舉行，每個NFT的拍賣時間都是48小時。

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The La Flor Dominicana Andalusian Bull is the company’s most heralded smoke—Cigar Aficionado’s 2016 Cigar of the Year—and often hard to find at retail. To date, it’s been a brand with only one size, but soon there will be a new, smaller size that will be sold in a most untraditional way, and one that’s even harder to obtain than the original.

The new size is called The Golden Bull, a lonsdale made in the same blend as the Andalusian Bull. The lonsdale measures 6 1/4 inches long by 42 ring gauge, far slimmer than the Andalusian Bull, which has a 64 ring gauge at its fattest point, and is 6 1/2 inches long.?

But don’t expect to find Golden Bulls in your neighborhood cigar store. The only people who will be able to buy these cigars from La Flor are those who acquire a Golden Bull NFT (non fungible token), which will be auctioned off in a drop organized by UREEQA, a digital validation company that was founded in Canada in 2020, and is partnering with La Flor Dominicana on this project.

Only seven NFTs will be sold, and they will be sold via auction, so there is no set price. Ownership of the Golden Bull NFT comes with the right to buy up to 70 of these cigars per month for as long as they own the NFT. They come 14 to the box, said La Flor Dominicana’s Tony Gomez. “So basically, one to five boxes,” he said.?

NFTs are digital assets, items such as art, or music, and while they have been around for several years their popularity (and consumer awareness) has soared as of late. Forbes reports that $174 million has been spent on NFTs over the past five years. People buy them as investments, hoping their value will increase.?

In a statement, La Flor said: “La Flor Dominicana guarantees that these seven NFT owners will be the only people in the world who can buy The Golden Bull directly from them. Owners of the NFTs will be allowed to re-sell the digital asset in the future, transferring the right to purchase the cigars to a new owner.”

The original seven buyers will receive a 50-count Gold Bullion Humidor, loaded with 50 Golden Bulls. A larger version of this humidor, filled with 100 of those cigars, sold for $32,000 at the ProCigar charity auction. Company co-owner Litto Gomez told Cigar Aficionado that was the only time the Golden Bull cigar has been sold.

The auction will take place in mid-July, according to Tony Gomez. The plan is to auction off the seven NFTs “one at a time,” he said, “with a 48-hour-window for each.”