As for the cigar, the Plasencia Year of the Tiger is a 6 1/4 x 54 Nicaraguan puro that uses tobaccos that have been aged for up to 10 years. For those unfamiliar, Plasencia 1865 is part of the larger Plasencia tobacco empire, which includes massive growing and cigar rolling operations in both Honduras and Nicaragua. Plasencia 1865 is the company that sells the Plasencia-branded cigars, though the family makes cigars for a long list of third-party companies. This year’s release is limited to 6,250 boxes, though only 2,500 boxes are designated for U.S. stores. The cigars showed up at international accounts in January—which is when we bought our box—