RoMa Craft Tobac is extending a familiar idea to a new line. The company has long offered limited barber pole versions of its CroMagnon cigars, including the CroMagnon Black Irish and the Aquitaine EMH Saber Tooth. That approach is now coming to Intemperance Whiskey Rebellion with the Intemperance WR 1794 Monongahela.
Co-founder Skip Martin showed the new cigar as a 5 × 56 parejo, the same size as the regular production WR 1794 Bradford. The standard Ecuadorian habano ligero wrapper is joined by an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed leaf. Underneath, the blend keeps an Indonesian Besuki binder with fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. The cigars are made at Fábrica de Tabacos NicaSueño S.A. in Nicaragua. Pricing, box counts, and a first event date have not been announced.
Michael Rosales, the company’s other co-founder, told Halfwheel that Monongahela will be an event-only cigar, at least at first, and will probably be quite limited. He said he will bring it to select events and that wider distribution is possible later, but the first event has not been chosen.
The name points to Monongahela, Pa., about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh, a town tied to the Whiskey Rebellion. In 1791, a whiskey tax was introduced to help pay debts from the American Revolutionary War. On August 14, 1794, more than 200 rebels met on the banks of the Monongahela River in what is now Monongahela, Pa.
This reporting is based on information originally published by Halfwheel.