THE AVIATOR SERIES
An Ongoing, Limited Production and a DIFFERENT Approach to Blending.
Aviators are reblended for each and every small production.
We go through the trouble for three big reasons:
When we say rare tobacco, we mean it. The youngest leaf in any Aviator vitola is five-years-old. We want to use small, aged and special new tobacco discoveries that won’t be available forever. Normally, materials this rare would never be used and we wouldn’t get to enjoy them.
Great tobacco often means vibrant tobacco, leaves with an opinion to express. Consider that an Aviator is the balanced expression of 5-7 tobaccos working together in delicate harmony. Now suppose one tobacco has a slightly better growing season than normal. Suddenly, it is overpowering other ingredients and the experience has lost its complexity. Change is necessary.
Experiences smoking the same cigar already differ based on a variety of factors. What has already touched your palate, the time of day, the weather, your mood and countless other things influence what you taste. So, why should we mute your experience by using less-flavorful tobacco simply in the name of a ‘consistency,’ which won’t be experienced anyway? We will always err on the side of making a slightly better cigar, than the side of making a slightly more consistent one.
THE CORE AVIATOR Series VITOLAS
Envoi
(5 x 50)
Wrapper: Corojo (Ecuador)
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican, Nicaragua, USA
The Envoi recipe was created originally by Hendrik Kelner for his own use. The layered blend gets some of its complexity from a double-binder (rarely seen, especially in a smaller-format cigar). It fit so well within the spirit of the Aviator Series, we took it over exclusively for the Envoi.
Cochon Volant
(5 x 65)
Wrapper: Corojo (Ecuador)
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican, Nicaragua, Peru
From CigarAndCraftBeer: Cold Draw: leather, pepper, spicy, espresso, fresh green grass, hay. First Third: cream, caramel, fresh ground coffee beams, sweet red pepper, chocolate brownie, bread from the grill, peanut butter, mint. Second Third: honey, toast, cream, wood, walnut, cinnamon, rosemary, little salt, earth, rum aroma, cedar, dried figs. Last Third: black coffee, grass, a little mint, a little spicy but discreet, leather, sweet red pepper, butter, truffle oil, bitter sweet chocolate, cappuccino, almonds, orange peel. Conclusion: A dream of a cigar we all said. So it will be a cigar that has to be in our humidor.
Vainqueur
(6.5 x 56)
Wrapper: Corojo (Ecuador)
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican, Nicaragua (2), USA
From Cigar Press: Sweet floral and cedar like notes were on the pre-light nose and taste. Solid in the hand, the cigar had an effortless draw and provided dense, creamy textured smoke. It was sweet and floral with mild white pepper notes in the nose. Very aromatic. The cigar continued to build in flavor and body strengths. Full flavors with a mild-medium body. Outstanding construction. A unique and flavorful cigar.
Grande Pyramide
(7.5 x 60)
Wrapper: Corojo (Ecuador)
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican, Nicaragua, Peru, Pennsylvania, Connecticut Broadleaf
The entire production of Grande Pyramides is limited to ten cigars daily, all using the same mold by the factory manager at KBF. Dense in nature and cool-smoking with a lighly sweet, porcelain-like blend. A delicately balanced and complex, five-country, seven-tobacco blend.
A Preview from the Expanded Aviator Series
Patrie
(7 x 50)
Wrapper: Cubra (Brazil)
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican (2), Nicaragua, USA
From Cigar Journal: Cedar wood with honey sweetness, coffee and caramel, leather, and with a pinch each of salt and pepper - a gentle, harmonious and, above all, creamy cigar. Perfect handiwork; excellent draw and burn.
Escopette
(7 x 57)
Wrapper: Corojo (Ecuador)
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican, Nicaragua (2), USA
The new top-end Aviator in the regular line.
Brindille
(6 X 46)
Wrapper: Corojo (Ecuador)
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican, Nicaragua, USA
The Bonao binder on the Brindille is now 17-years-old.
