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.
Today, Omar de Frias announced Robert Hernandez as the new Regional Sales Manager for Florida and Georgia.
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.
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.
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.
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 has announced the return of its popular regional cigars: DMV. This series was create as tribute to the region where the company started. DMV stands for District (Washington DC), Maryland and Virgina but also includes Delaware. As with last years release, each region gets their own special size. But, this year, each blend will be different.
Omar de Frias of Fratello Cigars has announced a new exclusive smoke for retailers in Texas: The Texan. This is the second in a series of state and area exclusives.
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 that Samuel Dietz has been hired at Fratello Cigars as the Director of Sales for the Mid-Atlantic.