ATL Cigar Co announces its newest line, La Carrousel-1960, featuring two vitolas: a 6 ½ x 56 Gran Toro and a 5 ½ x 50 Robusto Extra. La Carrousel-1960 features an Ecuadorian Habano Oscuro wrapper over a Jalapa Valley binder, with fillers from Jalapa and Estelí.
It will be available at the PCA trade show.
“This cigar wasn’t originally intended to carry this name,” Leroy Lamar, president of ATL Cigar Co., said in a press release. “But as we continued refining the blend, it became clear the story had chosen itself. The depth. The weight. The late-night character of the smoke — it felt like jazz. And in Atlanta, that meant La Carrousel.”
The line is named after a famed jazz venue located within Paschal’s Motor Hotel in the 1960s, also a landmark gathering place during the Civil Rights era that featured artists including Gladys Knight, Dizzy Gillespie, and Herbie Hancock.
