Partagas limited edition - guest blogger

On the way to a holiday for the next 2 weeks, I should be out of touch but wanted to leave you with one interesting article by James (who made his appearance below) on Partagas limited editions... Happy Smoking! 

The Partagas Serie D No.4 is a cigar recognised and loved, by cigar enthusiasts and beginners alike, as one of the greatest robustos available on the Market - especially with age on it. However this lonely regular production cigar was one of a family of 16 cigars - the alphabetical series of Partagas cigars. 

Discontinued one by one, the D4 is all that remains in regular production. In the 1930s, the cigars ranged from the Serie A No.1 through to the D No.4. The 4 A Serie being of a ring gauge of 38, B Serie a ring gauge of 42, C Serie was 48 and the D Serie 50. 1 equating to 6 5/8 inches in length, 2 - 6 1/8, 3 - 5 1/2 and finally the "4" were all 4 7/8 inches in length. 

Several of these cigars have been reproduced as an Edición Limitada (Limited Edition) to commemorate these sizes; the D No.2 in 2003, the D No.1 in 2004. A Serie D No.3 was also released however it was not in keeping with the orginal size; the Edición Limitada for 2010, the Partagas Serie D Especial has taken this size (for some more colour on this cigar, see the last part of this post by Mass). 

An extremely limited release, in the book series of cigars, showcased the C No.1 in 2002, which I have yet had the pleasure to track down and smoke, but I hope is just a

matter of time. The picture below, courtesy of Hunters & Frankau, shows them.

Those of you who haven't had the pleasure of igniting any of these limited release cigars, I  urge you to try and find them as they are fast disappearing and worth the effort.

by James