Fratello Cigars recently announced their new distribution partner for Germany, Klaus Kleinlagel. Kleinlagel has been in the cigar industry since 1916 and they are based in Bruchsal Germany. Fratello Cigars already have distribution in the Netherlands, Dominican Republic, Thailand, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Switzerland. This new partnership opens doors to expand the international growth of the Fratello Cigars brand.
Fratello Cigars has hired Justin Harris as Director of Operations. Harris will oversee day-to-day operations for the company's Springfield, VA office. Duties will include customer relations, human resources, logistics, process and quality improvement and new initiatives.
Omar de Frias has announced a new Fratello Fresh Pack consisting of five cigars. Inside the pack are a selection...
Omar de Frias announced today a new cigar exclusive to Old Virginia Tobacco (OVTC), Fratello Esclusivo Connecticut. Last year, Old Virginia Tobacco and Fratello launched the Esclusivo, which was a 5 x 52 piramide using a Habano Nicaragua wrapper. The new blend uses an Ecuador Connecticut wrapper, Nicaraguan binder, and Nicaragua and Dominican fillers. Esclusivo Connecticut comes in one vitola, a 6 x 52 parejo. Only 300 boxes of 20 were made. Esclusivo Connecticut will sell at all 7 stores of the Northern Virginia chain.
Omar de Frias announced today its latest blend, Navetta Inverso Boxer. This is the third line in the Navetta series. The first was the original Navetta, which translates to shuttle in Spanish, in 2017. It used an oscuro wrapper. Next came the Navettal Inverso, which used the same tobaccos, but in reverse order, so the tobacco previously used for the wrapper and binder were now the filler, and the filler were now the binder and wrapper. Now the Navetta Inverso Boxer is that blend tweaked a bit a made in their signature 6 ¼ x 52 Box Press Torpedo. It carries an MSRP of $13.00 per cigar. It will be shown off at this years IPCPR convention.
Omar de Frias announced today that Fratello Cigars would partner with W. Curtis Draper Tobacconist to offer discounts for federal employees in the DC area affected by the government shutdown. This is the longest government shutdown in our history and affects over 800,000 federal workers either furloughed or forced to work without pay.
Omar de Frias has announced a new cigar today, exclusive to the state of Pennsylvania: "The Pennsylvanian." This is the third in a series of state exclusive cigars.
The Fratello Bianco IV will be released in July 2016 at the IPCPR Tradeshow. “We are excited to add this new vitola to the Bianco line as our customers are looking a longer smoking experience with the Bianco.” said de Frias.
Fratello Cigars announced today two new exclusive sizes in the Navetta and Navetta Inverso lines. Both will be chuchills and available only at Tobaccology. Only 5,000 of each cigar was made and come in a split box containing both blends. This is the fifth store exclusive offered by Fratello.
Fratello Cigars is adding a new blend to their portfolio: Fratello Piccolo. The blend is based on the Classico blend but uses a different wrapper and is in a new vitola. The wrapper on the Fratello Piccolo is an Ecuadorian Habano. This replaces the Nicaraugan Habano on the original.