Davidoff Selection
3 Blends

The pursuit of excellence – the benchmark of a Davidoff cigar.
Davidoff was the man who had the integrity to destroy over a hundred thousand Davidoff cigars from Cuba, because he judged them sub-standard and not worthy of his name.
Davidoff, the man, died in 1994.
But Davidoff, the legend, lives on in the spirit of his company – the pursuit of excellence.

The 3 cigars in this Davidoff selection have Dominican binder and filler – the differences are in the wrappers: Connecticut Shade, Ecuadorian, Yamasa (Dominican).
Ric Hacker says the wrapper is the most important part of the cigar, it provides 30% – 60% of the flavour and is the embodiment of the cigar’s total character.
Colin Wesley

Puro d’Oro Deliciosos (124mm x Ring 43)
A Puro?  This is a cigar made entirely of leaf from one country – in Cuba it also intimated export quality cigars. Naturally the Cuban Davidoff was “a Puro”
But a Dominican Puro?
The common opinion was that this was not possible because good quality wrapper leaf could not be grown in the Dominican Republic. (The Millenium blend, for example, uses wrapper leaf from Ecuador.)
Hendrik Kelner was determined to achieve a Davidoff Puro from the Dominican Republic. In 1996 he started experimenting with Criollo seeds for the wrapper. It was a failure, at least for Davidoff standards. Then the red clay-like soil of the Yamasa Valley gave him the idea that it would produce a wrapper leaf  with a unique, rich flavour.
After nearly 15 years the Davidoff Puro d’Oro was released – well-aged, with filler and binder of medium-bodied Dominican leaf, and the rich, full-bodied wrapper leaf from the Yamasa Valley.
I quote “ pure Dominican, pure Gold, pure Davidoff”.

Davidoff Millenium Petit Corona (Short Petit Corona 113mm x Ring 41)
But then tastes in the US started to change, and there was a demand for richer “Cubanesque” cigars. Davidoff already marketed a full-bodied Honduran “Zino” but it was felt that the time was right to launch a new richer “Davidoff” – the Millenium Blend with a wrapper from Ecuador. Typical of the attention to excellent quality – this wrapper comes from a hybrid plant which Davidoff developed with the local farmers over some years. Once again the Davidoff skill is apparent in the harmony of the blend and the excellence of the cigar.

Davidoff Grand Cru No.4 (Short Petit Corona 115mm x Ring 41)
In 1991 Davidoff moved production from Cuba to the Dominican Republic under the care of master blender Hendrik Kelner. The Santo Domingo tobaccos used in the cigars were naturally lighter than Cuban leaf, but the requirement for consistent, excellent quality was unchanged, and the same smooth, mild, creamy smoke was achieved. The trend at the time was to lighter smoking, and the Dominican cigar appealed particularly to the United States market (in which the strong Cuban cigars had not been available since the 1960’s) and to new cigar smokers who often found Cuban cigars too heavy.