Joya de Nicaragua introduced Cuatro Cinco Edición Europa, a special edition that honors the strong relations that Joya de Nicaragua built with Europe during the most difficult times of its history.
“Once it became possible to travel again after the pandemic, we started traveling to Europe to visit some of our oldest friends. It is a great moment in the cigar industry in Europe right now, and we knew that we wanted to spend time with them. After such a stressful period, having your friends by your side feels even better. Europe has deserved this Cuatro Cinco special edition for a long time, and we were more than happy to announce it last September at Intertabac 2022 in Germany. This is a way to celebrate relationships that were formed decades ago,” says Executive President Juan Ignacio Martínez.
After the Nicaraguan Civil War in the ’70s, the U.S. imposed an embargo on Nicaragua in 1985, and the company could no longer sell its cigars to the American market. This was when Joya de Nicaragua started seeking new opportunities for their amazing cigars, finding shelter in Europe. Here, the brand became a reference in countries like Switzerland, Eastern Germany, England, and the Soviet Union, traditionally dominated by Cuban cigars. These were the first steps of the New World cigars. In November 2013, Joya de Nicaragua released Cuatro Cinco Edición Limitada, which commemorated the 45th anniversary of the company. In the last nine years, the cigar has been produced in six vitolas (Toro, Belicoso, Torpedo, Doble Robusto, Petit Corona, and Belicoso Gordo). Since its release, Joya de Nicaragua has launched two regional editions of Cuatro Cinco in places where the brand had deep and strong relationships, Cuatro Cinco Edición Asia for the Asian market in 2020 and Cuatro Cinco Edición Americana for the United States in 2021.
Cuatro Cinco Edición Europa comes in a 7×52 x 178mm (7″) Doble Corona box-pressed size and is limited to just 500 10-count boxes. This blend features a Nicaraguan Criollo wrapper over a Dominican binder and Nicaraguan fillers. The finished cigars are aged for at least one year in white oak vintage barrels, previously used inside a world-renowned rum distillery.