Villager 1888 Gran Reserva

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Blog post of review: https://tinytimblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/villager-1888-gran-reserva-6-x-54.html

(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)
In the cigar world, using the term Gran Reserva as part of the name oftentimes—though not always—means a particular blend has received extra aging. For Villiger’s newest release, it means the cigars were aged for at least one year after rolling.

At the 2025 PCA Convention & Trade Show, Villiger Cigars North America will show off the new Villiger 1888 Gran Reserva, a new limited edition box-pressed 6 x 54 toro. Blend-wise, it uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over an Ecuadorian habano binder and fillers from Nicaragua. The Gran Reserva part of the name is a classification given by Villiger that means that all of the tobaccos used were aged for at least two years in bales before the cigars were rolled. The cigars themselves were rolled and then aged for an additional year at Villiger de Nicaragua, the company’s factory in Estelí. While Villiger sells other 1888 blends, this appears to be an all-new blend and not simply an existing blend that has received extra age.

Each cigar will have an MSRP of $22 and production is limited to 1,000 boxes of 10 cigars.

According to the company, the Villiger 1888 Gran Reserva is medium-full in strength and has notes of leather, black pepper, nuts and roasted coffee.

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Rating system:
93+ Would buy again
90 would smoke again
85 might smoke again/not buy
Less than 85 would not smoke again

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